Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Site Tools

  • AAAS
  • Subscribe
  • Feedback

Site Search

Search Advanced

Science 13 February 1981:
Vol. 211. no. 4483, pp. 721 - 722
DOI: 10.1126/science.211.4483.721
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Articles

Sex Ratio Manipulation and Selection for Attractiveness

NANCY BURLEY 1

1 Department of Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801

Laboratory experiments performed on a monogamous estrildid, the zebra finch (Poephila guttata), indicate that sex ratio of offspring is affected by non-genetic markers (colored plastic leg bands) that vary in attractiveness to birds. Results suggest that natural selection favors individuals that produce offspring of the sex of the more attractive parent within a breeding pair.

Submitted on November 4, 1980


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Different Effects of Individual Identification Systems on Chicken Well-Being.
R. L. Dennis, A. G. Fahey, and H. W. Cheng (2008)
Poult. Sci. 87, 1052-1057
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Strong but variable associations between social dominance and clutch sex ratio in a colonial corvid.
H.M. Salomons, C. Dijkstra, and S. Verhulst (2008)
Behav. Ecol. 19, 417-424
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Testing the sexy son hypothesis--a research framework for empirical approaches.
T. Huk and W. Winkel (2008)
Behav. Ecol. 19, 456-461
   Full Text »    PDF »
Rapid courtship evolution in grouse (Tetraonidae): contrasting patterns of acceleration between the Eurasian and North American polygynous clades.
A. Spaulding (2007)
Proc R Soc B 274, 1079-1086
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Should attractive males have more sons?.
T. W. Fawcett, B. Kuijper, I. Pen, and F. J. Weissing (2007)
Behav. Ecol. 18, 71-80
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Primary sex ratio adjustment to experimentally reduced male UV attractiveness in blue tits.
P. Korsten, C. M. Lessells, A. C. Mateman, M. van der Velde, and J. Komdeur (2006)
Behav. Ecol. 17, 539-546
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Sex-specific effects of yolk testosterone on survival, begging and growth of zebra finches.
N. von Engelhardt, C. Carere, C. Dijkstra, and T. G. G. Groothuis (2006)
Proc R Soc B 273, 65-70
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Differential sex allocation in sand lizards: bright males induce daughter production in a species with heteromorphic sex chromosomes.
M. Olsson, E. Wapstra, and T. Uller (2005)
Biol Lett 1, 378-380
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Sex allocation in response to paternal attractiveness in the zebra finch.
A.N. Rutstein, H.E. Gorman, K.E. Arnold, L. Gilbert, K.J. Orr, A. Adam, R. Nager, and J.A. Graves (2005)
Behav. Ecol. 16, 763-769
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Sex-specific growth rates in zebra finch nestlings: a possible mechanism for sex ratio adjustment.
T. L. F. Martins (2004)
Behav. Ecol. 15, 174-180
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Reconsidering the null hypothesis: Is maternal rank associated with birth sex ratios in primate groups?.
G. R. Brown and J. B. Silk (2002)
PNAS 99, 11252-11255
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Egg sex ratio and paternal traits: using within-individual comparisons.
K. R. Oddie and C. Reim (2002)
Behav. Ecol. 13, 503-510
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Sex-specific dispersal in spatially varying environments leads to habitat-dependent evolutionary stable offspring sex ratios.
R. Julliard (2000)
Behav. Ecol. 11, 421-428
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Is variation in brood sex ratios adaptive in the great tit (Parus major)?.
A. N. Radford and J. K. Blakey (2000)
Behav. Ecol. 11, 294-298
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Sexes of a monomorphic species differ in preference for mates with a novel trait.
K. Witte and E. Curio (1999)
Behav. Ecol. 10, 15-21
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Offspring sex ratio is related to male body size in the great tit (Parus major).
M. Kolliker, P. Heeb, I. Werner, A. C. Mateman, C. M. Lessells, and H. Richner (1999)
Behav. Ecol. 10, 68-72
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Reputed Band Attractiveness and Sex Manipulation in Zebra Finches.
K. IMMELMANN, J. P. HAILMAN, and J. R. BAYLIS (1982)
Science 215, 422
   PDF »
Constraints in the Evolution of Sex Ratio Adjustment.
S. A. West and B. C. Sheldon (2002)
Science 295, 1685-1688
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)