[PDF] Top 20 Female mate choice and mate search tactics in a sex role reversed population of the peacock blenny Salaria pavo (Risso, 1810)

... study, female mate choice criteria and searching behaviour were analysed in a sex role reversed population of the peacock blenny ... See full document

... plasticity, the ability of a genotype to produce different phenotypes in response to varying environmental conditions, is widespread in nature and has been considered a potential ... See full document

... courtship in peacock blenny Salaria pavo did not add significantly to the response of visual stimuli and females did not court when a male was not ...visible. ... See full document

... Morphology and endocrinology were studied in two populations of the peacock blenny Salaria pavo, with different regimes of sexual selection imposed by ... See full document

... around the nest (the breeding territories are restricted to the nest itself), and it is common to observe males nesting in adjacent holes of the same brick ...At ... See full document

... In the present study, the relationship between FA levels and reproductive success in males of the peacock blenny Salaria pavo (Risso) ... See full document

... are the courting sex, there is high level of male competition to access mates, and females are choosy for potential ...opportunities and through male mating preferences, however, is ... See full document

... Females and nesting males had higher brain aromatase mRNA levels than parasitic and transitional ...parasitic and nesting males, although the difference was only signi ficant for nesting ...is ... See full document

... a population of S. pavo occurs in a mudflat area where there is a scarcity of appropriate nest ...sites. The only hard substrates available for nesting are tiles and bricks ... See full document

... a population of S. pavo occurs in an area where there is a scarcity of appropriate nest ...for the access to nests and do not defend any territory around the nest ... See full document

... differences in variation in the strength of male mate choice is that Byrne & Rice manipulated variation in female fecundity, whereas Edward & Chapman did ... See full document

... benefit-provisioning mate retention behaviors are less clear compared to those for cost-inflicting ...behaviors. In previous research ...levels of self-esteem also reported that their partners ... See full document

... vary in their composition of genomotypes. Two distinct population types with utterly distinct reproductive dynamics may be defined, namely triploid-dominated and tetraploid-dominated ... See full document

... at the MSP sampling stage, since this technique can miss classes of receptors if their occur- rence is low or if they are not uniformly distributed in the retina (Bowmaker et ...to the ... See full document

... errors in the overestimation or underestimation of the attractiveness of risk taking can be studied within the framework of error management theory, which proposes ... See full document

... consexuals. In males, in which sex-role reversed syngnathids often have no need to compete with other males ( Berglund & Rosenqvist 2003 ), the mechanism could be simpler, ... See full document

... (drums) and visual displays, from January to May, at various water ...Males in better condition (larger lipid reserves) exhibit higher acoustic ...females’ mate choice is based on males’ ... See full document

... 0.05) in R v. 2.12.0 under the lme4 package ...with the full model and used a stepwise backward selection procedure on fixed factors until reaching the minimal adequate ...kept ... See full document

... isolation in this gregarious species, were maintained in a single room where all manipulations were ...used in this experi- ...underwent mate-choice trials and staged encounters ... See full document

... Participants in our study consisted of sexually active female college students who were in a committed relationship with a member of the opposite sex and agreed to ... See full document