Colouration in Atlantic puffins and blacklegged kittiwakes: monochromatism and links to body condition in both sexes.
10 pages International audience Sexual dimorphism is widely used as an indirect measure of the intensity of sexual selection. It is also a way to evaluate whether different selective pressures act on males and females. Dichromatism, defined as a difference in colouration between males and females, m...
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ftunmontpellier3:oai:HAL:hal-00872029v1 2024-05-19T07:36:58+00:00 Colouration in Atlantic puffins and blacklegged kittiwakes: monochromatism and links to body condition in both sexes. Doutrelant, Claire Grégoire, Arnaud Gomez, Doris Staszewski, Vincent Arnoux, Emilie Tveraa, Torkild Faivre, Bruno Boulinier, Thierry 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) Biogéosciences UMR 6282 (BGS) Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) Funding obtained through the French Polar Inst. (IPEV; programme no. 333). 2013-09 https://hal.science/hal-00872029 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-048X.2013.00098.x en eng HAL CCSD Wiley info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1111/j.1600-048X.2013.00098.x hal-00872029 https://hal.science/hal-00872029 doi:10.1111/j.1600-048X.2013.00098.x ISSN: 0908-8857 EISSN: 1600-048X Journal of Avian Biology https://hal.science/hal-00872029 Journal of Avian Biology, 2013, 44 (5), pp.451-460. ⟨10.1111/j.1600-048X.2013.00098.x⟩ [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology [SDV.EE.IEO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology environment/Symbiosis info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2013 ftunmontpellier3 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-048X.2013.00098.x 2024-04-22T16:57:07Z 10 pages International audience Sexual dimorphism is widely used as an indirect measure of the intensity of sexual selection. It is also a way to evaluate whether different selective pressures act on males and females. Dichromatism, defined as a difference in colouration between males and females, may for instance result from selection for crypsis in females and selection for conspicuousness in males. Here, we conducted a study to investigate whether differential sexual selective pressures might act on the colour traits of two colonial seabird species, the Atlantic puffin Fratercula artica and the black-legged kittiwake Rissa tricactyla. First, we used spectrophotometry and visual modelling to determine whether these presumed monomorphic birds are really monochromatic from an avian perspective (birds and humans have a different vision). Second, we estimated whether some of their colourations have the potential to be sexually or socially selected by determining whether these colourations were related to body condition in males and females, and whether the yellow, orange and red colourations may contain carotenoid pigments. Our results indicated that both species were fully monochromatic from an avian perspective. Moreover, our preliminary analyses suggested that the yellow, orange and red colours of these birds contained carotenoids. Lastly, some indices of colouration were positively linked to estimates of condition. Birds in better condition had redder gape (both species) and bill (puffins). In puffins, the relation between condition and gape colouration was significantly stronger in females than males. By contrast, the size of the gape rosette was larger in males than females. The positive links we found between colour indices and condition, together with the absence of sexual dichromatism, suggest that mutual sexual selection may act in these two species. Article in Journal/Newspaper artica Atlantic puffin Black-legged Kittiwake fratercula HAL Portal Paul-Valéry University Montpellier 3 Journal of Avian Biology no no |
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10 pages International audience Sexual dimorphism is widely used as an indirect measure of the intensity of sexual selection. It is also a way to evaluate whether different selective pressures act on males and females. Dichromatism, defined as a difference in colouration between males and females, may for instance result from selection for crypsis in females and selection for conspicuousness in males. Here, we conducted a study to investigate whether differential sexual selective pressures might act on the colour traits of two colonial seabird species, the Atlantic puffin Fratercula artica and the black-legged kittiwake Rissa tricactyla. First, we used spectrophotometry and visual modelling to determine whether these presumed monomorphic birds are really monochromatic from an avian perspective (birds and humans have a different vision). Second, we estimated whether some of their colourations have the potential to be sexually or socially selected by determining whether these colourations were related to body condition in males and females, and whether the yellow, orange and red colourations may contain carotenoid pigments. Our results indicated that both species were fully monochromatic from an avian perspective. Moreover, our preliminary analyses suggested that the yellow, orange and red colours of these birds contained carotenoids. Lastly, some indices of colouration were positively linked to estimates of condition. Birds in better condition had redder gape (both species) and bill (puffins). In puffins, the relation between condition and gape colouration was significantly stronger in females than males. By contrast, the size of the gape rosette was larger in males than females. The positive links we found between colour indices and condition, together with the absence of sexual dichromatism, suggest that mutual sexual selection may act in these two species. |
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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) Biogéosciences UMR 6282 (BGS) Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) Funding obtained through the French Polar Inst. (IPEV; programme no. 333). |
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Colouration in Atlantic puffins and blacklegged kittiwakes: monochromatism and links to body condition in both sexes. |
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Colouration in Atlantic puffins and blacklegged kittiwakes: monochromatism and links to body condition in both sexes. |
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Colouration in Atlantic puffins and blacklegged kittiwakes: monochromatism and links to body condition in both sexes. |
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Colouration in Atlantic puffins and blacklegged kittiwakes: monochromatism and links to body condition in both sexes. |
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Colouration in Atlantic puffins and blacklegged kittiwakes: monochromatism and links to body condition in both sexes. |
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colouration in atlantic puffins and blacklegged kittiwakes: monochromatism and links to body condition in both sexes. |
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