Female choice selects for a viability-based male trait in pheasants.

Abstract:

:Recent theory on sexual selection suggests that females in species without paternal care choose mates by their secondary sexual characters because these indicate genotypic quality which will be transmitted to the offspring. These ideas are not yet empirically supported as data quantifying the relationship between female mate choice and female reproductive success are lacking. Only in one case, in Colias butterflies, has it been demonstrated unequivocally that females choose 'good genotypes' as mates and there is only one study, on Drosophila, demonstrating that mate choice increases one component of offspring fitness. Spur length of male pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) correlates with various fitness-related properties. We here present the first experimental field data showing that female pheasants select mates on the basis of male spur length and that female mate choice correlates with female reproductive success.

journal_name

Nature

journal_title

Nature

authors

von Schantz T,Göransson G,Andersson G,Fröberg I,Grahn M,Helgée A,Wittzell H

doi

10.1038/337166a0

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1989-01-12 00:00:00

pages

166-9

issue

6203

eissn

0028-0836

issn

1476-4687

journal_volume

337

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