ArticleOecologia2014
Colour biases in territorial aggression in a Neotropical cichlid fish.
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- Assessing the Association Between Animal Color and Behavior: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Concerning Predation on Small Vertebrates by Alien Gold Morph Midas cichlid,Tropical life sciences research · 2024Article
- Wasteful carotenoid coloration and its effects on territorial behavior in a cichlid fish.Hydrobiologia · 2021Article
- Testing the potential mechanisms for the maintenance of a genetic color polymorphism in bluefin killifish populations.Current zoology · 2018Article
- Aggressive desert goby males also court more, independent of the physiological demands of salinity.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Male competition and speciation: expanding our framework for speciation by sexual selection.Current zoology · 2018Article
- How does male-male competition generate negative frequency-dependent selection and disruptive selection during speciation?Current zoology · 2018Article
- Color and behavior differently predict competitive outcomes for divergent stickleback color morphs.Current zoology · 2018Article
- Allopatry, competitor recognition and heterospecific aggression in crater lake cichlids.BMC evolutionary biology · 2016Article
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- Sympatric ecological divergence associated with a color polymorphism.BMC biology · 2015Article
- Heterospecific aggression bias towards a rarer colour morph.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
- Links between color conspicuousness, territorial behavior, and steroids in a color polymorphic lizard.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Discrete colour morphs have provided important insights into the evolution of phenotypic diversity. One of the mechanisms that can help to explain coexistence of ecologically similar colour morphs and incipient species is (colour) biased aggression, which has the potential to promote continued existence of the morphs in a frequency-dependent manner. I addressed colour biases in territorial aggression in a field-based study on a Neotropical cichlid fish species, Amphilophus sagittae, which has two ecologically indistinguishable colour morphs that mate assortatively. I found that A. sagittae, in particular females, were more aggressive towards models of their own colour than those mimicking colours of the other morph. Such a behavioural pattern should result in a selection regime that benefits the rarer morph, and hence could help explain how novel, rare phenotypes may avoid competitive exclusion.
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