Early experience as a variable in mate selection

Warriner, Clell C.; Lemmon, W. B.; Ray, Thomas S.

doi:10.1016/s0003-3472(63)80103-7

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“…Male zebra finches prefer females with similar characteristics to their mother ( Vos, 1995). Assortative mating in snow geese ( Cooke & McNally, 1976) and mate choice in pigeons ( Warriner et al. , 1963 ) and mallard ducks ( Lorenz, 1937; Kruijt et al.…”

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Sexual imprinting, learning and speciation

1999

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Learned mate preferences may play an important role in speciation. Sexual imprinting is a process whereby mate preferences are a ected by learning at a very young age, usually using a parent as the model. We suggest that while the origins of learning appear to lie in the advantages of individual recognition, sexual imprinting results from selection for recognition of conspeci®cs. This is because e cient early learning about one's own species is favoured in the presence of heterospeci®cs. If di erent species are hybridizing, both sexual imprinting and learning to avoid heterospeci®cs during adulthood promote assortative mating and hence speciation. As a result of sexual imprinting, speciation may also be completed in allopatry when divergence between populations is su cient to prevent interbreeding when the populations reunite, even in the absence of genetic evolution of mate preference. The role of behaviour and learning in completing the speciation process is relatively overlooked. In particular the evolution of sexual imprinting as a result of selection against hybridization warrants more study.

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1999

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“…Harris (1970) found that gulls raised by other species of gulls often choose and mate successfully with their foster species rather than their own. Domestic pigeons (Columba livid) tend to mate with other pigeons resembling in plumage their foster parents (Goodwin, 1958;Warriner et al, 1963). Whitman (1919) raised pigeons in captivity and hybridized some of them by cross-fostering with different species.…”

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Behavior, Mimetic Songs and Song Dialects, and Relationships of the Parasitic Indigobirds (Vidua) of Africa

Payne¹

1973

Ornithological Monographs

153

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. University of California Pressand American Ornithologists' Union are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Ornithological Monographs. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 194.29.185.145 on Tue, 17 Jun 2014 23:53:26 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Breeding plumages of the males of ten kinds of indigobirds. A, Vidua chalybeata chalybeata, form "aenea" (FMNH 278472, Richard-Toll, Senegal); B, V. c. amauropteryx (RBP 4469, Sabi Valley, Rhodesia); C, V. c. ultramarina (FMNH 204118, Mojjio, Ethiopia); D, V. funerea codringtoni (RBP 4437, Penhalonga-Umtali, Rhodesia); E, V. f. lusitensis ssp. nov. (RBP 4575, Lusitu River, Rhodesia); F, V. f. funerea (RBP 4424, 6 mi. E. Tzaneen, Transvaal); G, V. wilsoni, form "nigeriae" (RBP 4937, Panshanu Pass, Nigeria); H, V. wilsoni, form "camemnensis" (RBP 4855, Zaria, Nigeria); I, V. wilsoni, form "wilsoni" (RBP 4960, Zaria, Nigeria); J, V. purpurascens (RBP 4419, Merensky Reserve, Transvaal).

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“…For example, to increase from low frequency the selective advantage of the novel homozygote would have to be greater than 2a/(4 + 7 a) for a trait with no dominance, (where 1 + a:1 is the ratio by which the choosing sex prefers mating with members of the chosen sex with the preferred genotype over those with the less preferred genotype). Typical values ofa given in the ethological literature range from 1-8 (Warriner et al 1963;Cooke and Davies 1983;Williams 1983), requiring extremely strong selection for the favorable variants to spread with selection coefficients ranging from 0.18 to 0.44.…”

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“…Several studies have reported a sex difference in "imprintability" (Warriner et al 1963;Schultz 1965;Immelmann 1972). However, recent studies suggest that in fact both sexes develop an initial preference through imprinting, but sex differences emerge during courtship because of the different roles of the sexes (i.e., one sex dominates pair formation), or because of a sex difference in the use of other cues (e.g., one sex attends to behavioral cues in addition to plumage) (ten Cate 1988).…”

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On the Evolutionary Consequences of Sexual Imprinting

Laland

1994

Evolution

106

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Abstract. -The idea that sexual imprinting may generate sexual selection and possibly lead to speciation has been much discussed in the ethological literature. Here the feasibility of three such hypotheses is investigated using mathematical models of sexual selection in which mating preferences are acquired through imprinting and hence dependent upon the parental phenotypes. The principal findings are the following. (I) Sexual imprinting reduces the likelihood ofnovel adaptive traits spreading through a population, except in some circumstances in which there is heterozygote advantage. (2) Asymmetrical mating preferences, acquired through imprinting, can generate sexual selection for traits that impair survival. (3) The conditions under which sexual imprinting will maintain a genetic polymorphism in a population are fairly restricted. (4) Sexual imprinting can act as a barrier to gene flow minimizing the impact of migration and preserving and accentuating genetic differences between populations. The findings suggest that sexual imprinting may be of considerable evolutionary significance.

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Early experience as a variable in mate selection

Cited by 49 publications

References 18 publications

Sexual imprinting, learning and speciation

Sexual imprinting, learning and speciation

Behavior, Mimetic Songs and Song Dialects, and Relationships of the Parasitic Indigobirds (Vidua) of Africa

On the Evolutionary Consequences of Sexual Imprinting

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