Sexual selection, social selection and individual quality : underlying mechanisms and ultimate consequences of ornamentation in a monomorphic species, the King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus)

• Main Author: Schull, Quentin
• Other Authors: Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Strasbourg, Jean-Patrice Robin, Pierre Bize
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: Social selection; Sexual selection; Evolution; Honest signal; Monomorphic species; King penguins; Sélection sociale; Sélection sexuelle; Évolution; Signal honnête; sélectiespèce monomorphique; Manchot royal; [SDV.BA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology; [SDV.BID.EVO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE]; Manchot; King Penguins
• Online Access: https://theses.hal.science/tel-01587947; https://theses.hal.science/tel-01587947/document; https://theses.hal.science/tel-01587947/file/SCHULL_Quentin_2016_ED414.pdf

Darwin’s seminal theory of evolution by means of natural selection, first published 157 years ago, has been in constant refinement ever since. The production and maintenance of extravagant ornaments is widely suggested to evolve by conspecific preference providing information on individual intrinsic...