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Predictors of male insemination success in the mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki).
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- Ecology of fear in highly invasive fish revealed by robots.iScience · 2022Article
- Embryonic Onset of Sexually Dimorphic Heart Rates in the Viviparous Fish,Biomedicines · 2021Article
- Fine-scale genital morphology affects male ejaculation success: an experimental test.Biology letters · 2020Article
- An experimental test of the role of male mating history on paternal effects in the livebearer fishBiology letters · 2020Article
- Natural and sexual selection drive multivariate phenotypic divergence along climatic gradients in an invasive fish.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Does the winner-loser effect determine male mating success?Biology letters · 2018Article
- Personality differentially affects individual mate choice decisions in female and male Western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis).PloS one · 2018Article
- Condition-dependent female preference for male genitalia length is based on male reproductive tactics.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Sympatry Predicts Spot Pigmentation Patterns and Female Association Behavior in the Livebearing Fish Poeciliopsis baenschi.PloS one · 2017Article
- Are sexually selected traits affected by a poor environment early in life?BMC evolutionary biology · 2016Article
- Predictors of male insemination success in the mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki).Ecology and evolution · 2015Article
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Abstract
Identifying targets of selection is key to understanding the evolution of sexually selected behavioral and morphological traits. Many animals have coercive mating, yet little is known about whether and how mate choice operates when these are the dominant mating tactic. Here, we use multivariate selection analysis to examine the direction and shape of selection on male insemination success in the mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki). We found direct selection on only one of five measured traits, but correlational selection involving all five traits. Larger males with longer gonopodia and with intermediate sperm counts were more likely to inseminate females than smaller males with shorter gonopodia and extreme sperm counts. Our results highlight the need to investigate sexual selection using a multivariate framework even in species that lack complex sexual signals. Further, female choice appears to be important in driving the evolution of male sexual traits in this species where sexual coercion is the dominant mating tactic.
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