[go: up one dir, main page]
IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/beheco/v24y2013i4p968-981..html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Male aggression varies with throat color in 2 distinct populations of the mesquite lizard

Author

Listed:
  • Elizabeth Bastiaans
  • Gen Morinaga
  • José Gamaliel Castañeda Gaytán
  • Jonathon C. Marshall
  • Barry Sinervo
Abstract
We describe discrete variation in throat color, an important sexual signal, in males of 2 populations of the mesquite lizard (Sceloporus grammicus). At one locality, males exhibit orange, yellow, and blue morphs; whereas at the other, males exhibit orange, yellow, and white morphs. We performed dyadic agonistic behavior trials in both populations and found that variation in throat color is associated with variation in aggression level. However, the association between color and behavior is not the same between these 2 populations. The association between color and behavior in the mesquite lizard is also not consistent with some of the associations documented in closely related species with variable throat color. Our findings suggest that although the tendency for discrete color variation to signal alternative reproductive tactics is phylogenetically widespread, both the color signals and the behaviors associated with them may change rapidly over evolutionary time.

Suggested Citation

  • Elizabeth Bastiaans & Gen Morinaga & José Gamaliel Castañeda Gaytán & Jonathon C. Marshall & Barry Sinervo, 2013. "Male aggression varies with throat color in 2 distinct populations of the mesquite lizard," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 24(4), pages 968-981.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:beheco:v:24:y:2013:i:4:p:968-981.
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/beheco/art010
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Peter D. Dijkstra & Charlotte Hemelrijk & Ole Seehausen & Ton G.G. Groothuis, 2009. "Color polymorphism and intrasexual competition in assemblages of cichlid fish," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 20(1), pages 138-144.
    2. Peter D. Dijkstra & Sander van Dijk & Ton G.G. Groothuis & Michele E.R. Pierotti & Ole Seehausen, 2009. "Behavioral dominance between female color morphs of a Lake Victoria cichlid fish," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 20(3), pages 593-600.
    3. Stacey L. Weiss, 2006. "Female-specific color is a signal of quality in the striped plateau lizard (Sceloporus virgatus)," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 17(5), pages 726-732, September.
    4. Colin Bleay & Barry Sinervo, 2007. "Discrete genetic variation in mate choice and a condition-dependent preference function in the side-blotched lizard: implications for the formation and maintenance of coadapted gene complexes," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 18(2), pages 304-310.
    5. Wayne J. Korzan & Russell D. Fernald, 2007. "Territorial male color predicts agonistic behavior of conspecifics in a color polymorphic species," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 18(2), pages 318-323.
    6. Lesley T. Lancaster & Christy A. Hipsley & Barry Sinervo, 2009. "Female choice for optimal combinations of multiple male display traits increases offspring survival," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 20(5), pages 993-999.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Sheri L. Johnson & H. Jane Brockmann, 2012. "Alternative reproductive tactics in female horseshoe crabs," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 23(5), pages 999-1008.
    2. Daniel Friedman & Jacopo Magnani & Dhanashree Paranjpe & Barry Sinervo, 2017. "Evolutionary games, climate and the generation of diversity," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(8), pages 1-14, August.
    3. Kate L.A. Marshall & Martin Stevens, 2014. "Wall lizards display conspicuous signals to conspecifics and reduce detection by avian predators," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 25(6), pages 1325-1337.
    4. Elizabeth A Hobson & Simon DeDeo, 2015. "Social Feedback and the Emergence of Rank in Animal Society," PLOS Computational Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(9), pages 1-20, September.
    5. Laura R. Crothers & Molly E. Cummings, 2015. "A multifunctional warning signal behaves as an agonistic status signal in a poison frog," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 26(2), pages 560-568.
    6. Samuel P Caro & Léo Pierre & Matthieu Bergès & Raldi Bakker & Claire Doutrelant & Francesco Bonadonna, 2021. "Mutual mate preferences and assortative mating in relation to a carotenoid-based color trait in blue tits," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 32(6), pages 1171-1182.
    7. Guillem Pérez i de Lanuza & Enrique Font & Pau Carazo, 2013. "Color-assortative mating in a color-polymorphic lacertid lizard," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 24(1), pages 273-279.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:beheco:v:24:y:2013:i:4:p:968-981.. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://academic.oup.com/beheco .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.