期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 276, 期 1663, 页码 1875-1881出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1752
关键词
display rate; Fisherian sexual selection; genetic benefits; lek size; Lepidothrix coronata; male quality
资金
- Ministry of Environment in Ecuador [13-IC-FAU-DFN]
- UM-St Louis [5-12-20]
- National Science Foundation [IBN-0235141]
- National Geographic Society [7113-01]
- CAPES (Brazil)
- UM-St Louis
Lekking males compete for females within and among leks, yet female choice is expected to work differently at each of these spatial scales. We used paternity analyses to examine how lek versus male attributes influence mate choice in the blue-crowned manakin Lepidothrix coronata. We tested the hypotheses that females prefer (i) to mate at larger leks where a larger number of potential mates can be assessed, (ii) to mate with unrelated or highly heterozygous males expected to produce high-quality offspring, (iii) to mate with males that display at higher rates, and that (iv) display honestly reflects male genetic quality. Our results show that (i) males at larger leks are not more likely to sire young, although females nesting close to small leks travel further to reach larger leks, (ii) siring males are not less related to females or more heterozygous than expected, (iii) within a lek, high-display males are more likely to sire young, and (iv) both male heterozygosity and display rate increased with lek size, and as a result display does not reliably reflect male genetic quality across leks. We suggest that female mate choice in this species is probably driven by a Fisherian process rather than adaptive genetic benefits.
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