Sexual selection is widely viewed as playing a central role in haplochromine cichlid speciation. Hypothetically, once divergent mate preferences evolve among populations of these fishes, reproductive isolation follows...Sexual selection is widely viewed as playing a central role in haplochromine cichlid speciation. Hypothetically, once divergent mate preferences evolve among populations of these fishes, reproductive isolation follows and the populations begin to behave as different species. Various studies have examined patterns of assortative mating among species and sometimes populations, but few have examined variation in directional preferences, especially among populations of the same species. We investi- gated mate choice behavior in two populations of Labeotropheus fueUeborni, a Lake Malawi endemic. We test whether mating preferences between populations are based on the same traits and in the same direction as preferences within populations. We examine the potential contributions of two classes of trait, color patterns and behaviors, to reproductive isolation. When females chose between either two males of their own population, or two from another, female preferences were generally similar （for the female population） across the two contexts. Mate choice patterns differed between （female） populations for a measure of color, but only modestly for male behavior. In a separate experiment we simultaneously offered females a male of their own population and a male from a different population. In these trials, females consistently preferred males from their own population, which were also the males that displayed more frequently than their opponents, but not necessarily those with color traits suggested to be most attractive in the previous experiment. Thus directional preferences for chroma and related aspects of color may be important when females are presented with males of otherwise similar phenotypes, but may play little role in mediating assortative mating among populations with substantially different color patterns. A preference for male behavior could play some role in speciation if males preferentially court same-population females, as we have observed for the populations studied herein [Current Zoology 58 （3）： 475-483, 2012].展开更多
A fundamental result in the theory of minimal rational curves on projective manifolds is Cartan- Fubini extension theorem proved by Hwang and Mok, which describes the extensibility of biholomorphisms between connected...A fundamental result in the theory of minimal rational curves on projective manifolds is Cartan- Fubini extension theorem proved by Hwang and Mok, which describes the extensibility of biholomorphisms between connected open subsets of two Fano manifolds of Picard number 1 which preserve varieties of minimal rational tangents （VMRT）, under a mild geometric assumption on the second fundamental forms of VMRT＇s. Hong and Mok have developed Cartan-Fubini extension for non-equidimensional holomorphic immersions from a connected open subset of a Pano manifold of Picard number 1 into a uniruled projective manifold, under the assumptions that the map sends VMRT＇s onto linear sections of VMRT＇s and it satisfies a mild geometric condition formulated in terms of second fundamental forms on VMRT＇s. In the current paper, we give a generalization of Hong and Mok＇s result, under the same condition on second fundamental forms, assuming only that the holomorphic immersions send VMRT＇s to VMRT＇s. Our argument is different from Hong and Mok＇s and is based on the study of natural foliations on the total family of VMRT＇s. This gives a substantially simpler proof than Hong and Mok＇s argument.展开更多
文摘Sexual selection is widely viewed as playing a central role in haplochromine cichlid speciation. Hypothetically, once divergent mate preferences evolve among populations of these fishes, reproductive isolation follows and the populations begin to behave as different species. Various studies have examined patterns of assortative mating among species and sometimes populations, but few have examined variation in directional preferences, especially among populations of the same species. We investi- gated mate choice behavior in two populations of Labeotropheus fueUeborni, a Lake Malawi endemic. We test whether mating preferences between populations are based on the same traits and in the same direction as preferences within populations. We examine the potential contributions of two classes of trait, color patterns and behaviors, to reproductive isolation. When females chose between either two males of their own population, or two from another, female preferences were generally similar （for the female population） across the two contexts. Mate choice patterns differed between （female） populations for a measure of color, but only modestly for male behavior. In a separate experiment we simultaneously offered females a male of their own population and a male from a different population. In these trials, females consistently preferred males from their own population, which were also the males that displayed more frequently than their opponents, but not necessarily those with color traits suggested to be most attractive in the previous experiment. Thus directional preferences for chroma and related aspects of color may be important when females are presented with males of otherwise similar phenotypes, but may play little role in mediating assortative mating among populations with substantially different color patterns. A preference for male behavior could play some role in speciation if males preferentially court same-population females, as we have observed for the populations studied herein [Current Zoology 58 （3）： 475-483, 2012].
基金supported by National Researcher Program of National Research Foundation of Korea(Grant No.2010-0020413)
文摘A fundamental result in the theory of minimal rational curves on projective manifolds is Cartan- Fubini extension theorem proved by Hwang and Mok, which describes the extensibility of biholomorphisms between connected open subsets of two Fano manifolds of Picard number 1 which preserve varieties of minimal rational tangents （VMRT）, under a mild geometric assumption on the second fundamental forms of VMRT＇s. Hong and Mok have developed Cartan-Fubini extension for non-equidimensional holomorphic immersions from a connected open subset of a Pano manifold of Picard number 1 into a uniruled projective manifold, under the assumptions that the map sends VMRT＇s onto linear sections of VMRT＇s and it satisfies a mild geometric condition formulated in terms of second fundamental forms on VMRT＇s. In the current paper, we give a generalization of Hong and Mok＇s result, under the same condition on second fundamental forms, assuming only that the holomorphic immersions send VMRT＇s to VMRT＇s. Our argument is different from Hong and Mok＇s and is based on the study of natural foliations on the total family of VMRT＇s. This gives a substantially simpler proof than Hong and Mok＇s argument.
