Female mate choice and species recognition between two closely related cichlid fish of Lake Malawi, Metriaclima estherae and M. callainos

2020 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
Nonhlanhla P. Nyalungu ◽  
Vanessa Couldridge
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Species Recognition ◽  
Cichlid Fish ◽  
Female Mate Choice ◽  
Lake Malawi ◽  
Female Mate

Female mate choice and male parental defense behaviour in the cichlid fish Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum

1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (11) ◽  
pp. 2489-2493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miles H. A. Keenleyside ◽  
Robert W. Rangeley ◽  
Bryan U. Kuppers
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Female Choice ◽  
Aggressive Behaviour ◽  
Cichlid Fish ◽  
Female Mate Choice ◽  
Cichlasoma Nigrofasciatum ◽  
Female Mate ◽  
Size Classes ◽  
Adult Conspecific ◽  
Brood Guarding

Female Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum presented with three potential spawning partners of different sizes spawned most often near the medium-sized male. When mate choice was restricted to males of two size classes, females consistently spawned near the larger male. In the former experiment, small males courted females more actively than medium or large males did. This may explain why females occasionally spawned near small males in both experiments. Larger brood-guarding males showed more intensive aggressive behaviour towards an adult conspecific confined near their offspring than did smaller brood-guarding males. Selection will therefore favour the female choice of relatively large mates because such males are likely to be more effective defenders of their offspring.

scholarly journals Quantitative Genetic Analyses of Male Color Pattern and Female Mate Choice in a Pair of Cichlid Fishes of Lake Malawi, East Africa

PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. e114798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baoqing Ding ◽  
Daniel W. Daugherty ◽  
Martin Husemann ◽  
Ming Chen ◽  
Aimee E. Howe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Female Mate Choice ◽  
Lake Malawi ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Genetic Analyses ◽  
Cichlid Fishes ◽  
Female Mate ◽  
Quantitative Genetic

Evaluation of Female Mate Choice Cues in a Group of Lake Malawi Mbuna (Cichlidae)

Copeia ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Jordan ◽  
Karen Kellogg ◽  
Francis Juanes ◽  
Jay Stauffer
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Female Mate Choice ◽  
Lake Malawi ◽  
Female Mate

Female Choice in Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler (Locustella Ochotensis)

The Auk ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 694-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisashi Nagata
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Female Choice ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Female Mate Choice ◽  
Food Abundance ◽  
Territory Size ◽  
Territory Quality ◽  
Female Mate ◽  
Nest Sites ◽  
Grasshopper Warbler

Abstract Morphological and territorial factors that influence female mate choice were examined in the monogamous Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler (Locustella ochotensis) on an islet near Fukuoka, Japan. I assumed that pairing date corresponded with female mate choice. Pairing date was correlated with both territory size and food abundance but was not correlated with selected morphological characteristics of males. Territorial quality was assumed to be correlated with territory size because preferable food resources and nest sites were distributed randomly. I conclude that female mate choice was influenced by territory quality rather than by the morphological characteristics of males.

scholarly journals The fruitless gene affects female receptivity and species isolation

2020 ◽  
Vol 287 (1923) ◽  
pp. 20192765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tabashir Chowdhury ◽  
Ryan M. Calhoun ◽  
Katrina Bruch ◽  
Amanda J. Moehring
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Sensory Modality ◽  
Female Mate Choice ◽  
Neural Basis ◽  
Female Receptivity ◽  
Female Mate ◽  
Multiple Transcripts ◽  
Female Behaviour ◽  
Substrate Vibrations

Female mate rejection acts as a major selective force within species, and can serve as a reproductive barrier between species. In spite of its critical role in fitness and reproduction, surprisingly little is known about the genetic or neural basis of variation in female mate choice. Here, we identify fruitless as a gene affecting female receptivity within Drosophila melanogaster , as well as female Drosophila simulans rejection of male D. melanogaster . Of the multiple transcripts this gene produces, by far the most widely studied is the sex-specifically spliced transcript involved in the sex determination pathway. However, we find that female rejection behaviour is affected by a non-sex-specifically spliced fruitless transcript. This is the first implication of fruitless in female behaviour, and the first behavioural role identified for a fruitless non-sex-specifically spliced transcript. We found that this locus does not influence preferences via a single sensory modality, examining courtship song, antennal pheromone perception, or perception of substrate vibrations, and we conclude that fruitless influences mate choice via the integration of multiple signals or through another sensory modality.

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