Parasite-mediated sexual selection: Just how choosy are parasitized females?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-49

  Poulin, R ^a   Vickery, W L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Female choosiness; Parasite abundance; Parasites; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS; MATE CHOICE; PARASITE IMMUNITY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

EID: 0029667709     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050215     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Alatalo RV, Carlson A, Lundberg A (1988) The search cost in mate choice of the pied flycatcher. Anim Behav 36: 289-291
2. Anderson RM (1982) Parasite dispersion patterns: generative mechanisms and dynamic consequences. In: Meerovitch E (ed) Aspects of parasitology. McGill University Press, Montreal, pp 1-40
3. Anderson RM, Gordon DM (1982) Processes influencing the distribution of parasite numbers within host populations with special emphasis on parasite-induced host mortalities. Parasitology 85: 373-398
4. Anderson RM, May RM (1978) Regulation and stability of host-parasite population interactions. I. Regulatory processes. J Anim Ecol 47: 219-247
5. Clayton DH (1991) The influence of parasites on host sexual selection. Parasitol Today 7: 329-334
6. Clayton DH, Pruett-Jones SG, Lande R (1992) Reappraisal of the interspecific prediction of parasite-mediated sexual selection: opportunity knocks. J Theor Biol 157: 95-108
7. Crowden AE, Broom DM (1980) Effects of the eyefluke, Diplostomum spathaceum, on the behaviour of dace (Leuciscus leuciscus). Anim Behav 28: 287-294
8. Dobson AP, Merenlender A (1991) Coevolution of macroparasites and their hosts. In: Toft CA, Aeschlimann A, Bolis L (eds) Parasite-host associations: coexistence or conflict? Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 83-101
9. Edwards JC, Barnard CJ (1987) The effects of Trichinella infection on intersexual interactions between mice. Anim Behav 35: 533-540
10. Forsgren E (1992) Predation risk affects mate choice in a gobiid fish. Am Nat 140: 1041-1049
11. Gale JS (1990) Theoretical population dynamics. Unwin Hyman, London
12. Hamilton WD, Zuk M (1982) Heritable true fitness and bright birds: a role for parasites? Science 218: 384-387
13. Houde AE (1993) Evolution by sexual selection: what can population comparisons tell us? Am Nat 141: 796-803
14. Kennedy CEJ, Endler JA, Poynton SL, McMinn H (1987) Parasite load predicts mate choice in guppies. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 21: 291-295
15. Kennedy CR (1974) A checklist of British and Irish freshwater fish parasites with notes on their distribution. J Fish Biol 6: 613-644
16. Margolis L, Arthur JR (1979) Synopsis of the parasites of fishes of Canada. Bull Fish Res Board Can 199
17. Maynard Smith J (1989) Evolutionary genetics. Oxford University Press, Oxford
18. Milinski M, Bakker TCM (1990) Female sticklebacks use male coloration in mate choice and hence avoid parasitized males. Nature 344: 330-333
19. Milinski M, Bakker TCM (1992) Costs influence sequential mate choice in sticklebacks, Gasterosleus aculeatus. Proc R Soc London B 250: 229-233
20. Møller AP (1990a) Parasites and sexual selection: current status of the Hamilton and Zuk hypothesis. J Evol Biol 3: 319-328
21. Møller AP (1990b) Effects of a haematophagous mite on the barn swallow (Hinmdo rustica): a test of the Hamilton and Zuk hypothesis. Evolution 44: 771-784
22. Owen SF, Barber I. Hart PJB (1993) Low level infection by eye fluke, Diplostomum spp., affects the vision of three-spined sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus. J Fish Biol 42: 803-806
23. Poulin R (1994) Mate choice decisions by parasitized female upland bullies, Gobiomorphus breviceps. Proc R Soc London B 256: 183-187
24. Poulin R, Vickery WL (1993) Parasite distribution and virulence: implications for parasite-mediated sexual selection. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 33: 429-436
25. Real L (1990) Search theory and mate choice. I. Models of single-sex discrimination. Am Nat 136: 376-405
26. Simmons LW (1994) Courtship role reversal in bush crickets: another role for parasites? Behav Ecol 5: 259-266
27. Wedekind C (1992) Detailed information about parasites revealed by sexual ornamentation. Proc R Soc London B 247: 169-174
28. Zuk M (1992) The role of parasites in sexual selection: current evidence and future directions. Adv Study Behav 21: 39-68