Sexual selection on color and behavior within and between cichlid populations： Implications for speciation  

作　　者：Michael J.PAUERS Jeffrey S.MCKINNON 

机构地区：[1]Section of Vertebrate Zoology,The Milwaukee Public Museum,Milwaukee,WI 53233,USA [2]Department of Biology,N108 Howell Science Complex,East Carolina University,Greenville,NC 27858-4353,USA

出　　处：《Current Zoology》2012年第3期475-483,共9页动物学报（英文版）

摘　　要：Sexual selection is widely viewed as playing a central role in haplochromine cichlid speciation. Hypothetically, once divergent mate preferences evolve among populations of these fishes, reproductive isolation follows and the populations begin to behave as different species. Various studies have examined patterns of assortative mating among species and sometimes populations, but few have examined variation in directional preferences, especially among populations of the same species. We investi- gated mate choice behavior in two populations of Labeotropheus fueUeborni, a Lake Malawi endemic. We test whether mating preferences between populations are based on the same traits and in the same direction as preferences within populations. We examine the potential contributions of two classes of trait, color patterns and behaviors, to reproductive isolation. When females chose between either two males of their own population, or two from another, female preferences were generally similar （for the female population） across the two contexts. Mate choice patterns differed between （female） populations for a measure of color, but only modestly for male behavior. In a separate experiment we simultaneously offered females a male of their own population and a male from a different population. In these trials, females consistently preferred males from their own population, which were also the males that displayed more frequently than their opponents, but not necessarily those with color traits suggested to be most attractive in the previous experiment. Thus directional preferences for chroma and related aspects of color may be important when females are presented with males of otherwise similar phenotypes, but may play little role in mediating assortative mating among populations with substantially different color patterns. A preference for male behavior could play some role in speciation if males preferentially court same-population females, as we have observed for the populations studied herein [Current Zoology 58 （3

关 键 词：Haplochromine cichlid Sexual selection SPECIATION COLOR Labeotropheus 

分 类 号：Q959.4[生物学—动物学] TP391.41[自动化与计算机技术—计算机应用技术]