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Individual quality and reproductive effort mirrored in white wing plumage in both sexes of south polar skuas

Författare

  • Sveinn Are Hanssen
  • Jan O. Bustnes
  • Torkild Tveraa
  • Dennis Hasselquist
  • Oystein Varpe
  • John-Andre Henden

Summary, in English

It is well established that female choice may lead to sexual selection on quality-revealing ornaments in males. However, in many species, both sexes display conspicuous characters, which may reflect individual quality and condition. We examined the correlations between measures of individual condition, reproductive performance and variation in size and whiteness of white wing patches in both sexes of the south polar skua (Catharacta maccormicki). Females with a whiter patch had a lower mean clutch size and higher survival, and males with whiter patches had higher immune responses against the injected immunogen tetanus. Birds with a larger white patch, on the other hand, had a higher mass loss, and females with large white patches laid larger eggs and had reduced survival probability. Thus, variation in 2 measured aspects of the wing patches in the south polar skua seems to mirror a gradient of reproductive investment strategies; from 1) reduced reproductive investment, better immune defense, and higher survival in birds with more intensely white wing patches to 2) high reproductive investment but survival costs in birds with larger patches.

Publiceringsår

2009

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

961-966

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Behavioral Ecology

Volym

20

Issue

5

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Oxford University Press

Ämne

  • Biological Sciences

Nyckelord

  • diphtheria
  • immune function
  • male
  • sexual selection
  • ornament
  • female
  • tetanus

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Molecular Ecology and Evolution Lab

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1045-2249