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Evening up the score: sexual selection favours both alternatives in the colour-polymorphic ornate rainbowfish

Date

Authors

Hancox, Daniel

Hoskin, Conrad

Wilson, Robbie S.

Publisher

Academic Press

Abstract

Sympatry of multiple, interbreeding colour morphs within a single population requires equilibrium between the various agents of selection acting on alternative colour morphs. This colour polymorphism is an area of growing interest in evolutionary biology

Keywords

Keywords: assortative mating; color morph; evolutionary biology; freshwater ecosystem; life history trait; mate choice; polymorphism; reproductive cost; sexual selection; sympatry; teleost; Australia; Celastrina ladon; Rhadinocentrus ornatus Colour polymorphism; Mate choice; Rainbowfish; Rhadinocentrus ornatus; Sexual selection

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/62166

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Animal Behaviour

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.08.004

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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