Visual mate choice in poison frogs

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dc.contributor.authorSummers, Kyle
dc.contributor.authorSymula, Rebecca
dc.contributor.authorClough, Mark
dc.contributor.authorCronin, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-03T16:16:47Z
dc.date.available2019-05-03T16:16:47Z
dc.date.issued1999-11-07
dc.description.abstractWe investigated female mate choice on the basis of visual cues in two populations of Dendrobates pumilio, the strawberry poison frog, from the Bocas del Toro Archipelago in Panama, Central America. Mate choice experiments were carried out by presenting subject females of each of two morphs of this species (orange and green) from two different island populations (Nancy Key and Pope Island) with object frogs (one of each morph) under glass at one end of a terrarium. Recorded calls were played simultaneously from behind both object frogs. The experiments were carried out under two light regimes: (i) white light, and (ii) relatively monochromatic filtered blue light. Subject females from each population displayed a significant preference for their own morph under white light, but not under blue light. These results indicate that female D. pumilio use visual cues in mate choice, and suggest that colour may be the visual cue they use.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1690338/en_US
dc.format.extent6 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2frka-2zmv
dc.identifier.citationK. Summers, R. Symula, M. Clough, and T. Cronin, Visual mate choice in poison frogs , Proc Biol Sci. 1999 Nov 7; 266(1434): 2141–2145, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0900en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1999.0900
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/13559
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherThe Royal Societyen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
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dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
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dc.subjectpoison frogsen_US
dc.subjectDendrobatidaeen_US
dc.subjectcolouren_US
dc.subjectvisualen_US
dc.subjectmate choiceen_US
dc.titleVisual mate choice in poison frogsen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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