Female preference for sympatric vs. allopatric male throat color morphs in the mesquite lizard (Sceloporus grammicus) species complex
| Autor: | Jonathon C. Marshall, José Gamaliel Castañeda Gaytán, Brendan Bane, Fausto Méndez de la Cruz, Gen Morinaga, Barry Sinervo, Mary Jane Bastiaans, Elizabeth Bastiaans |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Sexual Reproduction Sympatry Sexual Selection Time Factors genetic structures Physiology Speciation lcsh:Medicine Behavioral Ecology Natural Selection 10. No inequality lcsh:Science Principal Component Analysis education.field_of_study Multidisciplinary Ecology Animal Behavior Pigmentation Reproduction Lizards Reproductive isolation Reptile Biology Sympatric speciation Sexual selection Female Anatomy Research Article Evolutionary Processes Population Allopatric speciation Zoology Biology Hybrid zone Species Specificity Animals Least-Squares Analysis education Mexico Evolutionary Biology Ecology and Environmental Sciences Assortative mating lcsh:R Reproductive System Biology and Life Sciences Mating Preference Animal Logistic Models Evolutionary Ecology Pharynx lcsh:Q Physiological Processes |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 4, p e93197 (2014) PLoS ONE |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Popis: | Color polymorphic sexual signals are often associated with alternative reproductive behaviors within populations, and the number, frequency, or type of morphs present often vary among populations. When these differences lead to assortative mating by population, the study of such polymorphic taxa may shed light on speciation mechanisms. We studied two populations of a lizard with polymorphic throat color, an important sexual signal. Males in one population exhibit orange, yellow, or blue throats; whereas males in the other exhibit orange, yellow, or white throats. We assessed female behavior when choosing between allopatric and sympatric males. We asked whether females discriminated more when the allopatric male was of an unfamiliar morph than when the allopatric male was similar in coloration to the sympatric male. We found that female rejection of allopatric males relative to sympatric males was more pronounced when males in a pair were more different in throat color. Our findings may help illuminate how behavioral responses to color morph differences between populations with polymorphic sexual signals contribute to reproductive isolation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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