Male cognition has gained recognition as an important potential player in sexual selection. A number of studies have found positive correlations between male sexual signals and cognitive performance an d/or female pre...
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Collaborative Research and Development program (#CRDPJ 462708-13);Discovery Program (#3122372012);Canada Research Chairs (#950-230607);Canada Foundation for Innovation (#201843)programs;NB Power (#CRDPJ 462708-13) provided funding for this research
Although estuaries are critical habitats for many aquatic species, the spatial trends of toxic methylmercury(MeHg) in biota from fresh to marine waters are poorly understood. Our objective was to determine if MeHg c...
Despite growing interest in female ornament evolution, we still have a rudimentary understanding of female display traits relative to similar traits in males. Under one popular adaptive scenario, female ornaments are ...
Our knowledge of how male competition contributes to speciation is dominated by investigations of competition between within-species morphs or closely related species that differ in conspicuous traits expressed during...
Body coloration and color patterns are ubiquitous throughout the animal kingdom and vary be- tween and within species. Recent studies have dealt with individual dynamics of various aspects of coloration, as it is in m...
Acknowledgements We thank C. Long and M. Rounds for help with data collection. Thanks to Tom Getty, Genevieve Kozak, Michael Jennions, several anonymous reviewers, and the Boughman lab for helping to improve this manuscript. Research was conducted under permits from the Ministry of the Environment, BC and approval from University of Wis- consin-Madison Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. This work was supported by the Emlen Fund from the Zoolo- gy Department of the University of Wisconsin, Madison to ACRL and the National Science Foundation to JWB.
One approach to understand the importance of reproductive barriers to the speciation process is to study the break- down of barriers between formerly distinct species. One reproductive barrier, sexual isolation, reduc...
There is growing evidence that individual animals show consistent differences in behavior. For example, individual threespined stickleback fish differ in how they react to predators and how aggressive they are during ...
supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30600062 and 30530120)
Interaction of olfactory receptor (OR) genes with environmental odors is regarded as the first step of olfaction.In this study,OR genes of two fish,medaka (Oryzias latipes) and stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus),wer...