ArticleJournal of evolutionary biology2014
Sexually selected dichromatism in the hihi Notiomystis cincta: multiple colours for multiple receivers.
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- A high-density linkage map reveals broad- and fine-scale sex differences in recombination in the hihi (stitchbird; Notiomystis cincta).Heredity · 2024Article
- Regularized regression can improve estimates of multivariate selection in the face of multicollinearity and limited data.Evolution letters · 2024Article
- Sexual selection predicts species richness across the animal kingdom.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Darwinian sex roles confirmed across the animal kingdom.Science advances · 2016Review
- Determinants of male floating behaviour and floater reproduction in a threatened population of the hihi (Notiomystis cincta).Evolutionary applications · 2015Article
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Abstract
Why do some bird species show dramatic sexual dichromatism in their plumage? Sexual selection is the most common answer to this question. However, other competing explanations mean it is unwise to assume that all sexual dichromatism has evolved by this mechanism. Even if sexual selection is involved, further work is necessary to determine whether dichromatism results from competition amongst rival males, or by female choice for attractive traits, or both. Here, we test whether sexually dichromatic hihi (Notiomystis cincta) plumage is currently under sexual selection, with detailed behavioural and genetic analyses of a free-living island population. Bateman gradients measured for males and females reveal the potential for sexual selection, whilst selection gradients, relating reproductive success to specific colourful traits, show that there is stabilizing selection on white ear tuft length in males. By correlating colourful male plumage with different components of reproductive success, we show that properties of yellow plumage are most likely a product of male-male competition, whilst properties of the black and white plumage are an outcome of both male-male competition and female choice. Male plumage therefore potentially signals to multiple receivers (rival males and potential mates), and this may explain the multicoloured appearance of one of the most strikingly dichromatic species in New Zealand.
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