ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2007
Sexually selected females in the monogamous Western Australian seahorse.
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- Bateman gradients reflect variation in sexual selection in a species with dynamic sex roles.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2022Article
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- Social interactions in different environments impacts and motivates reproductive displays in college students.Heliyon · 2017Article
- Linking reproduction, locomotion, and habitat use in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata).Oecologia · 2016Article
- Darwinian sex roles confirmed across the animal kingdom.Science advances · 2016Review
- The evolutionary puzzle of egg size, oxygenation and parental care in aquatic environments.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
- Body size preferences in the pot-bellied seahorse Hippocampus abdominalis: choosy males and indiscriminate females.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2009Article
- Sex-role reversal of a monogamous pipefish without higher potential reproductive rate in females.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2007Article
- The definition of sexual selection.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyReview
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Abstract
Studies of sexual selection in monogamous species have hitherto focused on sexual selection among males. Here, we provide empirical documentation that sexual selection can also act strongly on females in a natural population with a monogamous mating system. In our field-based genetic study of the monogamous Western Australian seahorse, Hippocampus subelongatus, sexual selection differentials and gradients show that females are under stronger sexual selection than males: mated females are larger than unmated ones, whereas mated and unmated males do not differ in size. In addition, the opportunity for sexual selection (variance in mating success divided by its mean squared) for females is almost three times that for males. These results, which seem to be generated by a combination of a male preference for larger females and a female-biased adult sex ratio, indicate that substantial sexual selection on females is a potentially important but under-appreciated evolutionary phenomenon in monogamous species.
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