Abstract：
:It has been recently suggested that female mate choice, based on sexually selected ornaments, is an important component of social wasps' reproductive biology. The correlates of male ornaments that could be of a female's interest, however, remain to be investigated. Males of the Neotropical paper wasp Polistes simillimus have sexually dimorphic melanin-based black spots on their faces. In this species, male spots work like sexual ornaments, as it has been experimentally demonstrated that females prefer sexual partners with a higher proportion of black pigment on their faces. We have shown that, under laboratory conditions, male sexual ornamentation positively predicts the strength of the melanization immune response and longevity. Therefore, in P. simillimus, melanin-based facial patterns (ornaments) seem to be honest indicators of male quality.
journal_name
J Insect Physioljournal_title
Journal of insect physiologyauthors
de Souza AR,Guimarães Simões T,Rantala MJ,Fernando Santos E,Lino-Netto J,do Nascimento FSdoi
10.1016/j.jinsphys.2018.06.002subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-01-01 00:00:00pages
163-168eissn
0022-1910issn
1879-1611pii
S0022-1910(18)30002-7journal_volume
109pub_type
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