Variation of mutual colour ornaments of king penguins in response to winter resource availability
International audience We studied the influence of marine resources during a year of abundance and another of extreme scarcity, on sexually selected ornaments of the king penguin ( Aptenodytes patagonicus), a seabird with striking coloured ornaments in both sexes. Displaying birds started their bree...
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ftunimontpellier:oai:HAL:hal-01165524v1 2024-05-19T07:43:28+00:00 Variation of mutual colour ornaments of king penguins in response to winter resource availability Keddar, Ismaël Couchoux, Charline Jouventin, Pierre Dobson, F. Stephen Département des Sciences Biologiques Montréal Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM) Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE) Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Sud )-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro) Department of Zoology Auburn University (AU) 2015 https://hal.science/hal-01165524 https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-00003299 en eng HAL CCSD Brill Academic Publishers info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1163/1568539X-00003299 hal-01165524 https://hal.science/hal-01165524 doi:10.1163/1568539X-00003299 ISSN: 0005-7959 EISSN: 1568-539X Behaviour https://hal.science/hal-01165524 Behaviour, 2015, pp.1. ⟨10.1163/1568539X-00003299⟩ early breeding mate choice Aptenodytes patagonicus mutual ornamentation king penguin sexual selection [SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoology info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2015 ftunimontpellier https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-00003299 2024-04-24T01:21:12Z International audience We studied the influence of marine resources during a year of abundance and another of extreme scarcity, on sexually selected ornaments of the king penguin ( Aptenodytes patagonicus), a seabird with striking coloured ornaments in both sexes. Displaying birds started their breeding cycle with similar mean body mass each year, but both sexes had significantly larger yellow/orange auricular patches in the year of abundant resources. Colours of the auricular patches and breast were more pure in the good year, and both UV and yellow/orange colours of beak spots were brighter. Comparison of the mating process suggested lower levels of choosiness in both sexes during the unfavourable year, perhaps in order to pair more quickly and partly compensate for a marked delay in breeding initiation. Our results suggest that the expression of sexual traits may substantially vary under different environmental conditions, a predication of some models of mate choice and sexual selection. Article in Journal/Newspaper King Penguins Université de Montpellier: HAL Behaviour 152 12-13 1679 1700 |
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early breeding mate choice Aptenodytes patagonicus mutual ornamentation king penguin sexual selection [SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoology Keddar, Ismaël Couchoux, Charline Jouventin, Pierre Dobson, F. Stephen Variation of mutual colour ornaments of king penguins in response to winter resource availability |
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International audience We studied the influence of marine resources during a year of abundance and another of extreme scarcity, on sexually selected ornaments of the king penguin ( Aptenodytes patagonicus), a seabird with striking coloured ornaments in both sexes. Displaying birds started their breeding cycle with similar mean body mass each year, but both sexes had significantly larger yellow/orange auricular patches in the year of abundant resources. Colours of the auricular patches and breast were more pure in the good year, and both UV and yellow/orange colours of beak spots were brighter. Comparison of the mating process suggested lower levels of choosiness in both sexes during the unfavourable year, perhaps in order to pair more quickly and partly compensate for a marked delay in breeding initiation. Our results suggest that the expression of sexual traits may substantially vary under different environmental conditions, a predication of some models of mate choice and sexual selection. |
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Département des Sciences Biologiques Montréal Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM) Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE) Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Sud )-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro) Department of Zoology Auburn University (AU) |
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Keddar, Ismaël Couchoux, Charline Jouventin, Pierre Dobson, F. Stephen |
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Keddar, Ismaël Couchoux, Charline Jouventin, Pierre Dobson, F. Stephen |
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Variation of mutual colour ornaments of king penguins in response to winter resource availability |
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Variation of mutual colour ornaments of king penguins in response to winter resource availability |
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Variation of mutual colour ornaments of king penguins in response to winter resource availability |
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Variation of mutual colour ornaments of king penguins in response to winter resource availability |
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Variation of mutual colour ornaments of king penguins in response to winter resource availability |
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variation of mutual colour ornaments of king penguins in response to winter resource availability |
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ISSN: 0005-7959 EISSN: 1568-539X Behaviour https://hal.science/hal-01165524 Behaviour, 2015, pp.1. ⟨10.1163/1568539X-00003299⟩ |
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