Sexing a gender-role-reversed species based on plumage: potential challenges in the red phalarope

• Main Authors: Giroux, Marie-Andrée, Ditlecadet, Delphine, Martin, Luc J, Lanctot, Richard B., Lecomte, Nicolas
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: PeerJ 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Igloolik; Nunavut; Red Phalarope
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1704; https://peerj.com/preprints/1704.pdf; https://peerj.com/preprints/1704.xml; https://peerj.com/preprints/1704.html

Sex-role reversal, in which males care for offspring, can occur when mate competition is stronger between females than males. Secondary sex traits and mate attracting displays in sex-role-reversed species are usually more pronounced in females than in males. The red phalarope is a textbook example o...