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In search of an honest butterfly: Sexually selected wing coloration and reproductive traits from wild populations of the Cabbage White Butterfly
Abstract <p></p><p>Sexual selection is central to many theories on mate selection and individual behavior. Relatively little is known, however, about the impacts that human-induced rapid environmental change are having on secondary sexually selected characteristics. Honest signals function as an indicator of mate quality when there are differences in nutrient acquisition and are thus potentially sensitive to anthropogenically altered nutrient inputs. We used the cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae (L.) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae), to investigate differences in color and testes size in a system that is often exposed to agricultural landscapes with nitrogen addition. We collected individuals from four sites in California and Nevada to investigate variation in key traits and the possibility that any relationship between wing color and a reproductive trait (testes size) could vary among locations in the focal butterfly. Coloration variables and testes size were positively albeit weakly associated across sites, consistent with the hypothesis that females could use nitrogen-based coloration in the cabbage white as an indicator for a male mating trait that has the potential to confer elevated mating success in progeny. However, variation in testes size and in the relationship between testes size and wing color suggest complexities that need exploration, including the possibility that the signal is not of equal value in all populations. Thus these results advance our understanding of complex relationships among environmental change and sexual selection in the wild.</p><p></p>
Mutual mate choice and assortative mating in relation to a carotenoid-based color trait in blue tits
<p>Choosing an appropriate partner is a critical decision for many animal species. However, many mechanisms involved in mate choice are still poorly understood. Do both males and females choose their sexual partners, do both sexes use the same criteria for choosing, and do their own phenotype influence the choices they make, are questions that need further investigation. Over two successive experiments conducted in captivity with hand-reared blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus), we manipulated the color of the chest plumage, a secondary sexual trait that reflects an individual's condition, to create two different color morphs (one pale and one colored). We then tested whether both sexes express a preference, whether they are attracted to the same morphs, and if the subjects' own chest color influences the preference they show. Our data reveal that both sexes are choosy, with females tending to be slightly choosier than males. We also show that both sexes preferentially select individuals with a pale chest plumage over colorful individuals, and this was again more pronounced in females. Finally, paler individuals tend to be selected by birds that are themselves pale, even if this phenotype matching was not very robust. Such a preference for paler individuals is intriguing since mates are predicted to associate with individuals displaying higher, not lower, value of quality signals. It could result from adaptive mechanisms related to avoidance of aggressiveness in confined environment, avoidance of conflicting sexual signals within individuals, or from cultural mechanisms leading to preference for individuals that match its own phenotype.</p>
Data from: Multiple signaling in a variable environment: expression of song and color traits as a function of ambient sound and light
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Selection on a small genomic region underpins differentiation in multiple color traits between two warbler species
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In search of an honest butterfly: Sexually selected wing coloration and reproductive traits from wild populations of the Cabbage White Butterfly
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Data from: True colors: commercially-acquired morphological genotypes reveal hidden allele variation among dog breeds, informing both trait ancestry and breed potential
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Data from: Keeping an eye on coloration: ecological correlates of the evolution of pitcher traits in the genus Nepenthes (Caryophyllales)
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Mutual mate choice and assortative mating in relation to a carotenoid-based color trait in blue tits
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The interplay of color and bioacoustic traits in the differentiation of a Southeast Asian songbird complex
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Test set - 4023 PubMed abstracts (for manuscript: Extracting knowledge networks from plant scientific literature: Potato tuber flesh color as an exemplary trait )
<p>A .zip archive containing the set of abstracts used in the test set (4023 abstracts from PubMed) in .txt format.</p> <p>This archive contains supplementary files for the manuscript Extracting knowledge networks from plant scientific literature: Potato tuber flesh color as an exemplary trait.</p>
Data from: Behavioral, energetic, and color trait integration in guppies: testing the melanocortin hypothesis
Individuals of the same population differ consistently from each other in the average expression of behavioral and physiological traits. Often, such traits are integrated and thus correlated with each other. However, the underlying proximate mechanisms generating and maintaining this among-individual covariation are still poorly understood. The melanocortin hypothesis suggests that the melanocortin pathway can have pleiotropic effects linking the expression of melanin-based coloration with physiological and behavioral traits. In the present study, we test this hypothesis in adult male guppies (Poecilia reticulata), by estimating among individual correlations between behaviors (activity, feeding, boldness, display and chase during courtship), stress response (peak metabolic rate), and coloration (black spot, fuzzy black, orange). The lack of correlation of any behavior or metabolism with black coloration indicates that the melanocortin hypothesis is not supported in this species. However, we observed covariation among coloration traits, as well as among behavioral traits. Our findings suggest that, although there appear to be constraints within sets of related traits, coloration, physiology, and behaviors can potentially evolve as independent modules in response to selection in this species.
Data from: Male mate choice based on female coloration in a lizard: the role of a juvenile trait
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Data from: Behavioral, energetic, and color trait integration in guppies: testing the melanocortin hypothesis
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Data from: QTL linkage mapping of zebra finch beak color shows an oligogenic control of a sexually selected trait
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High-density genetic map and genome-wide associaation studies of floral color traits in Phalaenopsis orchids
GEO Series GSE176215. Phalaenopsis x intermedia. 4 samples. Type: Other.
Physiological, biochemical and transcriptomic analyses reveal the mechanism of variation in color traits in Panax japonicus fruits
GEO Series GSE271131. Panax japonicus. 15 samples. Type: Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing.
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