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Pollo P, Nakagawa S, Kasumovic MM. The better, the choosier: A meta-analysis on interindividual variation of male mate choice. Ecol Lett 2022; 25:1305-1322. [PMID: 35259282 PMCID: PMC9543502 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2021] [Revised: 12/31/2021] [Accepted: 01/28/2022] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Male mate choice occurs in several animal species, but we know little about the factors that influence the expression of this behaviour. Males vary in their capacity to acquire mates (i.e. male quality), which could be crucial to male mate choice expression but it is often overlooked. Using a meta‐analytical approach, we explore interindividual variation in the expression of male mate choice by comparing the mating investment of males of different qualities and phenotypes to high‐ and low‐quality females. We used two datasets that together contained information from 60 empirical studies, comprising 52 species. We found that males of all qualities and phenotypes prefer high‐quality females, but differ in the strength of such preference. High‐ and medium‐quality males are choosier than low‐quality males. Similarly, males that are larger or in greater body condition are choosier than their counterparts. In contrast, male body mass and age are not associated with changes in male mate choice. We also show that experimental design may influence our understanding of male mating investment patterns, which may limit the generalisation of our findings. Nonetheless, we argue that male quality may be an important feature in the expression of male mate choice.
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- Pietro Pollo
- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Sydney, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Sydney, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Sydney, Australia
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Du K, Pippel M, Kneitz S, Feron R, da Cruz I, Winkler S, Wilde B, Avila Luna EG, Myers E, Guiguen Y, Macias Garcia C, Schartl M. Genome biology of the Darkedged Splitfin, Girardinichthys multiradiatus, and the evolution of sex chromosomes and placentation. Genome Res 2022; 32:583-594. [PMID: 35082141 PMCID: PMC8896457 DOI: 10.1101/gr.275826.121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Viviparity evolved independently about 150 times in vertebrates and more than 20 times in fish. Several lineages added to the protection of the embryo inside the body of the mother, the provisioning of nutrients, and physiological exchange. This often led to the evolution of a placenta. Among fish, one of the most complex systems serving the function of the placenta is the embryonal trophotaenia/ovarian luminal epithelium of the goodeid fishes. For a better understanding of this feature and others of this group of fishes, high-quality genomic resources are essential. We have sequenced the genome of the darkedged splitfin, Girardinichthys multiradiatus. The assembly is chromosome level and includes the X and Y Chromosomes. A large male-specific region on the Y was identified covering 80% of Chromosome 20, allowing some first inferences on the recent origin and a candidate male sex determining gene. Genome-wide transcriptomics uncovered sex-specific differences in brain gene expression with an enrichment for neurosteroidogenesis and testis genes in males. The expression signatures of the splitfin embryonal and maternal placenta showed overlap with homologous tissues including human placenta, the ovarian follicle epithelium of matrotrophic poeciliid fish species and the brood pouch epithelium of the seahorse. Our comparative analyses on the evolution of embryonal and maternal placenta indicate that the evolutionary novelty of maternal provisioning development repeatedly made use of genes that already had the same function in other tissues. In this way, preexisting modules are assembled and repurposed to provide the molecular changes for this novel trait.
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- Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
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- University of Lausanne, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, INRAE, LPGP
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- Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
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- Instituto de Ecologia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Circuito exterior s/n anexo al Jardín Botánico
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- Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
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- Instituto de Ecologia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Circuito exterior s/n anexo al Jardín Botánico
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Parvis ES, Coleman RM. Sexual Dimorphism and Size-Related Changes in Body Shape in Tule Perch (Family: Embiotocidae), a Native California Live-Bearing Fish. COPEIA 2020. [DOI: 10.1643/cg-19-229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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- Elizabeth Sarah Parvis
- California State University Sacramento, Department of Biological Sciences, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, California 95819-6077; (ESP) ; and (RMC) . Send reprint requests to ESP
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- California State University Sacramento, Department of Biological Sciences, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, California 95819-6077; (ESP) ; and (RMC) . Send reprint requests to ESP
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Do male fish prefer them big and colourful? Non-random male courtship effort in a viviparous fish with negligible paternal investment. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-017-2385-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Martínez Medina L, Macías Garcia C, Flores Urbina A, Manjarrez J, Moyaho A. Female vibration discourages male courtship behaviour in the Amarillo fish (Girardinichthys multiradiatus). Behav Processes 2013; 100:163-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2013] [Accepted: 09/26/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Single-male paternity in coelacanths. Nat Commun 2013; 4:2488. [PMID: 24048316 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2013] [Accepted: 08/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Latimeria chalumnae, a 'living fossil,' is of great scientific interest, as it is closely related to the aquatic ancestors of land-living tetrapods. Latimeria show internal fertilization and bear live young, but their reproductive behaviour is poorly known. Here we present for the first time a paternity analysis of the only available material from gravid females and their offspring. We genotype two L. chalumnae females and their unborn brood for 14 microsatellite loci. We find that the embryos are closely related to each other and never show more than three different alleles per locus, providing evidence for a single father siring all of the offspring. We reconstruct the father's genotype but cannot identify it in the population. These data suggest that coelacanths have a monogamous mating system and that individual relatedness is not important for mate choice.
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Sexual Conflict and Sexual Selection in the Goodeinae, a Clade of Viviparous Fish with Effective Female Mate Choice. ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOR 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3454(10)42001-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Ritchie MG, Hamill RM, Graves JA, Magurran AE, Webb SA, Macías Garcia C. Sex and differentiation: population genetic divergence and sexual dimorphism in Mexican goodeid fish. J Evol Biol 2007; 20:2048-55. [PMID: 17714321 DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01357.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Genetic differentiation arises due to the interaction between natural and sexual selection, migration and genetic drift. A potential role of sexual selection in speciation has received much interest, although comparative studies are inconsistent in finding supporting evidence. A poorly tested prediction is that species subject to a higher intensity of sexual selection should show greater genetic differentiation amongst populations because females from these populations should be more choosy in mate choice. The Goodeinae is a group of endemic Mexican fishes in which female choice has driven some species to be morphologically sexually dimorphic, whereas others are relatively monomorphic. Here, we measured population divergence, using microsatellite loci, within four goodeid species which show contrasting levels of sexual dimorphism. We found higher levels of differentiation between populations of the more dimorphic species, implying less gene flow between populations. We also found evidence of higher levels of genetic differences between the sexes within populations of the dimorphic species, consistent with greater dispersal in males. Adjusted for geographic distance, the mean F(ST) for the dimorphic species is 0.25 compared with 0.16 for the less dimorphic species. We conclude that population differentiation is accelerated in more sexually dimorphic species, and that comparative phylogeography may provide a more powerful approach to detecting processes, such as an influence of sexual selection on differentiation, than broad-scale comparative studies.
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- M G Ritchie
- School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
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Ritchie MG, Webb SA, Graves JA, Magurran AE, Macias Garcia C. Patterns of speciation in endemic Mexican Goodeid fish: sexual conflict or early radiation? J Evol Biol 2005; 18:922-9. [PMID: 16033564 DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.00919.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Currently there is much interest in the potential for sexual selection or conflict to drive speciation. Theory proposes that speciation will be accelerated where sexual conflict is strong, particularly if females are ahead because mate choice will accentuate divergence by limiting gene flow. The Goodeinae are a monophyletic group of endemic Mexican fishes with an origin at least as old as the Miocene. Sexual selection is important in the Goodeinae and there is substantial interspecific variability in body morphology, which influences mate choice, allowing inference of the importance of female mate choice. We therefore used this group to test the relationship between sexual dimorphism and speciation rate. We quantified interspecific variation in sexual dimorphism amongst 25 species using a multivariate measure of total morphological differentiation between the sexes that accurately reflects sexual dimorphism driven by female mate choice and also used a mtDNA-based phylogeny to examine speciation rates. Comparative analyses failed to support a significant association between sexual dimorphism and speciation rate. In addition, variation in the time course of speciation throughout the whole clade was also examined using a similar tree containing 34 extant species. A constant rates model for the growth of this clade was rejected, but analyses instead indicated a decline in the rate of speciation over time. These results support the hypothesis of an early expansion of the group, perhaps due to an early radiation influenced by the key innovation of live bearing, or the prevalence of Miocene volcanism. In general, support for the role of sexual selection in generating patterns of speciation is proving equivocal and we argue that vicariance biogeography and adaptive radiations remain the most likely determinants of major patterns of diversification of continental organisms.
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- M G Ritchie
- Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, Dyers Brae House, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK.
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Bisazza A, Cantalupo C, Capocchiano M, Vallortigara G. Population lateralisation and social behaviour: a study with 16 species of fish. Laterality 2005; 5:269-84. [PMID: 15513147 DOI: 10.1080/713754381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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We investigated turning responses in 16 species of fish faced with a vertical-bar barrier through which a learned dummy predator was visible. Ten of these species showed a consistent lateral bias to turn preferentially to the right or to the left. Species belonging to the same family showed similar directions of lateral biases. We performed an independent test of shoaling tendency and found that all gregarious species showed population lateralisation, whereas only 40% of the non-gregarious species did so. The results provide some support to the Rogers (1989) hypothesis that population lateralisation might have been developed in relation to the need to maintain coordination among individuals in behaviours associated with social life.
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- A Bisazza
- Dipartimento de Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova, Italy.
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Recent research has suggested that lateralization of aggressive behaviors could follow an homogeneous pattern among all vertebrates. A left eye/right hemisphere dominance in eliciting aggressive responses has been demonstrated for all groups of tetrapods but teleost fish for which data is lacking. Here we studied differential eye use during aggressive interactions in three species of teleosts: Gambusia holbrooki, Xenotoca eiseni and Betta splendens. In the first experiment we checked for lateralization in the use of the eyes while the subject was attacking its own mirror image. In order to confirm the results, other tests were performed on two species and eye preference was scored during attacks or displays directed toward a live rival. All three species showed a marked preference for using the right eye when attacking a mirror image or a live rival. Thus, the direction of asymmetry in fish appears the opposite to that shown by all the other groups of vertebrates. Hypotheses on the origin of the difference are discussed.
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- Angelo Bisazza
- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy
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