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ArticleBiology letters2025

Adult predation shapes the evolution of swimming performance in guppies (

Mingfang Yang, Hannah De Waele, Arjan P Palstra, Alexander Kotrschal

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Article in Biology letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mingfang YangBehavioural Ecology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Gelderland, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-5454-9424
Hannah De WaeleBehavioural Ecology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Gelderland, The Netherlands.
Arjan P PalstraAnimal Breeding and Genomics Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Gelderland, The Netherlands.
Alexander KotrschalBehavioural Ecology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Gelderland, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-3473-1402

Funding

China Scholarship CouncilSwedish Research CouncilWIAS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Predation pressure plays an important role in shaping animal behaviour and physiology, driving prey species to evolve stronger escape strategies. Swimming performance is a key trait for many aquatic organisms to evade predation. It is therefore intuitive that increased predation pressure should select for faster swimming abilities when outswimming predators is a viable option for prey. However, experimental evidence allowing for a causal link between predation and the evolution of swimming performance is currently lacking. Here, we used artificial selection lines of guppies (

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Biological EvolutionPoeciliaPredatory BehaviorSwimmingAnimalsFemaleMaleSelection, Geneticartificial selectionevolutionguppypredation pressureswimming performanceUcrit

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PMID40555373
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