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- Title
A test for female attraction to male orange coloration in Poecilia picta.
- Authors
Breden, Felix; Bertrand, Melanie
- Abstract
Examining the distribution of female preference and attractive male secondary sexual characters in closely related species can help evaluate the various models for the evolution of female preference. We examined whether orange coloration in males was attractive to females of Poe cilia picta, a species in the same subgenus as the guppy, P. reticulata. Females did not respond differently to males with or without a conspicuous orange stripe on the dorsum of the tail, a characteristic ornamentation of the male of this species. This lack of preference in a taxon that possesses a conspicuous, secondary sexual character directly contradicts the predictions of the sensory exploitation hypothesis for the evolution of female preference, but may support a model of antagonistic sexual selection proposed by Rice (1996).
- Subjects
POECILIA; POECILIIDAE; ZONA reticularis; SEXUAL selection; NATURAL selection; ATHERINIFORMES
- Publication
Environmental Biology of Fishes, 1999, Vol 55, Issue 4, p449
- ISSN
0378-1909
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1007591926457