Schlupp Ingo
Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, 730 Van Vleet Oval, Norman, OK 73019, USA.
Curr Zool. 2018 Jun;64(3):393-403. doi: 10.1093/cz/zoy028. Epub 2018 Apr 6.
Although the majority of studies on mate choice focus on female mate choice, there is growing recognition of the role of male mate choice too. Male mate choice is tightly linked to 2 other phenomena: female competition for males and ornamentation in females. In the current article, I review the existing literature on this in a group of fishes, Poeciliidae. In this group, male mate choice appears to be based on differences in female quality, especially female size, which is a proxy for fecundity. Some males also have to choose between heterospecific and conspecific females in the unusual mating system of the Amazon molly. In this case, they typically show a preference for conspecific females. Whereas male mate choice is relatively well documented for this family, female ornamentation and female competition are not.
尽管大多数关于配偶选择的研究都集中在雌性配偶选择上，但雄性配偶选择的作用也越来越受到认可。雄性配偶选择与另外两种现象紧密相关：雌性对雄性的竞争以及雌性的装饰。在本文中，我回顾了关于一群鱼类（花鳉科）的现有文献。在这个群体中，雄性配偶选择似乎基于雌性质量的差异，尤其是雌性体型，体型是繁殖力的一个指标。在亚马逊帆鳉独特的交配系统中，一些雄性还必须在异种雌性和同种雌性之间做出选择。在这种情况下，它们通常表现出对同种雌性的偏好。尽管这个科的雄性配偶选择有相对充分的文献记载，但雌性装饰和雌性竞争方面的情况并非如此。
