Taking the sensory approach: how individual differences in sensory perception can influence mate choice

Ronald, Kelly L.; Fernández‐Juricic, Esteban; Lucas, Jeffrey R.

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.09.015

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“…Response differences were seen in association time, i.e., a measure of female choosiness, and head butts and circling, i.e., measures of female preference (as distinguished by Ronald et al, 2012). One P. castelnaui experimental female, although responding to the paired playback stimulation, did not respond differentially, whereas all other experimental subjects, including those of the other two species, did at least in one paired test series per experimental female.…”

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“…) 2006; Baier & Kramer, 2007) in a more natural setting were, of course, excluded in this laboratory study that focussed on the EOD as a putative sensory basis for assortative mating. Common developmental and conditional factors are also seen as sources for individual differences in female mate choice, and variation in both response readiness and in female sensory detection of male displays is suggested to depend on factors such as nutrient availability, hormone profiles or age (Ronald et al, 2012).…”

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Sexual selection by female choice prevents speciation reversal in a hybridizing trio of mormyrid fish in southern Africa: evidence from playback experiments of electric organ discharges

Schmid

Kramer

2014

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We studied the question of whether or not female choice among variant forms of species-specific male advertising signals, electric organ discharges (EODs), is a factor in preventing panmixy in a parapatric sibling complex of three species of mormyrid fish, inhabiting three parallel rivers in southern Africa. The three species' EODs are characteristically differentiated in waveform. The Upper Zambezi River is inhabited by Pollimyrus marianne Kramer, van der Bank, Flint, SauerGürth & Wink, 2003, the Okavango River by P. castelnaui (Boulenger, 1911), and the smaller Kwando River in their middle by P. cuandoensis Kramer, van der Bank & Wink, 2013, which is their hybrid species of unidirectional origin. P. castelnaui females (N = 4 out of 5) and P. marianne females (N = 5 of 5) responded stronger to playback of the EODs of male conspecifics compared to those of male P. cuandoensis. Pollimyrus castelnaui and P. marianne females neither preferred nor discriminated against the male EODs of each other's species, respectively (one exception). The single P. cuandoensis female available preferred a P. marianne male EOD over one of its own species, and was neutral in all other tests. This suggests that female resistance in the two main system species to P. cuandoensis male EODs is an evolved one, effectively limiting hybridization to the Kwando. The females of the two main system species, P. castelnaui and P. marianne, thus prevent panmixy in the Okavango and the Zambezi, respectively, thereby keeping up the threesibling species complex by discriminating female choice against P. cuandoensis males in the Okavango-Kwando-Zambezi system. Keywords

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Sexual selection by female choice prevents speciation reversal in a hybridizing trio of mormyrid fish in southern Africa: evidence from playback experiments of electric organ discharges

Schmid

Kramer

2014

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“…In vertebrates, variation in color vision at the individual level (Toomey & McGraw, 2012) can result from differences in carotenoids deposited in intraocular filters such as the lens, cornea or oil droplets ( Heinermann, 1984;Bowmaker, 2008;Toomey et al, 2011). Since carotenoids must be obtained environmentally, poor diet can potentially affect how animals perceive visual signals, and an inability to perceive a color signal can result in poor decisions in agonistic interactions or reduce individuals' ability to select high-quality mates (Ronald et al, 2012;Toomey & McGraw, 2012). Therefore, it is necessary to assess individual variation and take into account the dietary status of focal individuals when conducting experiments with visual cues.…”

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“…However, signals are rarely unimodal (Sargent et al, 1998;Ronald et al,2012). There may have been other signals the choice fish produced that overtook the visual signal such as olfactory or auditory cues.…”

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“…There may have been other signals the choice fish produced that overtook the visual signal such as olfactory or auditory cues. While visual cues have been used in various mate choice experiments in fishes, experiments looking at olfactory, auditory and multimodal cues with respect to choice are becoming more common (Guevara-Fiore et al,2010;Verzijeden et al,2010;Ronald et al,2012;Passos et al, 2013;Estramil et al,2014).…”

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Dietary carotenoids and the complex role of redness in the behavior of the firemouth cichlid Thorichthys meeki.

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Mate choice decision rules: Trait synergisms and preference shifts

Burley

Hamedani

Symanski

2018

Ecology and Evolution

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An important and understudied question in sexual selection is how females evaluate information from multiple secondary sexual traits (SSTs), particularly when expression of traits is phenotypically uncorrelated. We performed mate choice experiments on zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata castanotis Gould) to evaluate two hypotheses: preference shifts (obstacles to choice using one trait increase chooser reliance on others) and trait synergisms (choice based on the sum/product of two or more independently varying traits). The first experiment, which employed males raised on diets that impact SST expression, supported the trait synergism hypothesis: overall, male pairing success was best predicted by synergisms involving beak color and cheek patch size. Results did not support the preference shift hypothesis. Results of a follow‐up experiment that included males reared on a single diet, and in which male beak color and cheek patch size were manipulated, were also consistent with the trait synergism hypothesis. Results have implications for understanding the long‐term persistence of multiple SSTs in populations and for the measurement of repeatability and heritability of mate preferences.

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Taking the sensory approach: how individual differences in sensory perception can influence mate choice

Cited by 73 publications

References 177 publications

Sexual selection by female choice prevents speciation reversal in a hybridizing trio of mormyrid fish in southern Africa: evidence from playback experiments of electric organ discharges

Sexual selection by female choice prevents speciation reversal in a hybridizing trio of mormyrid fish in southern Africa: evidence from playback experiments of electric organ discharges

Dietary carotenoids and the complex role of redness in the behavior of the firemouth cichlid Thorichthys meeki.

Mate choice decision rules: Trait synergisms and preference shifts

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