The association between personality traits, morphological traits and alternative mating behaviour in male Endler’s guppies, Poecilia wingei
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081766%3A_____%2F16%3A00458253" target="_blank" >RIV/68081766:_____/16:00458253 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eth.12491" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eth.12491</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eth.12491" target="_blank" >10.1111/eth.12491</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The association between personality traits, morphological traits and alternative mating behaviour in male Endler’s guppies, Poecilia wingei
Original language description
Alternative mating behaviour, personality traits and morphological characters are predicted to be correlated. Bolder, larger and more colourful males are expected to preferentially court females, while shy, small and drab-coloured individuals are predicted to sneak copulations. We used males of Endler’s guppy, Poecilia wingei, to test this association over a long temporal period (hence including ontogenetic changes) and under two social environments (male-biased and female-biased). We found that personality traits (exploration, boldness, activity) of P. wingei males were highly repeatable across long time spans, but they were not correlated (formed no behavioural syndrome). Male age and social environment had no effect on any personality trait, despite their effects on alternative mating behaviour. Young males with higher activity levels were more likely to attempt sneaking. In older fish, there was an association between orange coloration, courtship and boldness, but this was not observed in young males. Our results suggest that alternative mating behaviour is more flexible than personality traits and is independent of them. Non-colour-based morphological traits (gonopodium length, body length, caudal straps length, dorsal fin length) were not correlated with any particular mating behaviour.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EG - Zoology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GBP505%2F12%2FG112" target="_blank" >GBP505/12/G112: ECIP - European Centre of Ichtyoparasitology</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ethology
ISSN
0179-1613
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
122
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
456-467
UT code for WoS article
000375153800002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84961267205