期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY OF FISHES
卷 90, 期 2, 页码 197-205出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-010-9732-8
关键词
Aggressive interactions; Competition; Evolution of sex; Foraging; Gynogenesis
资金
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- German Society for Ichthyology
- DFG [PL 470/3-1]
- Herrmann-Willkomm-Foundation
- Swiss National Science Foundation
Considering its immediate costs of producing dispensable males, the maintenance of sexual reproduction is a major paradox in evolutionary biology. Asexual lineages that do not face such costs theoretically should replace sexuals over time. Nonetheless, several systems are known in which closely related sexual and asexual lineages stably coexist. In the present study, we studied a sexual/asexual mating complex of a sperm-dependent parthenogenetic fish (amazon molly, Poecilia formosa) and its sexual congeners, the sailfin molly P. latipinna and the Atlantic molly P. mexicana. We asked whether differences in feeding behavior could contribute to their stable coexistence. We conducted a laboratory experiment to compare feeding efficiencies and also measured the competitive abilities between the two reproductive forms. Additionally, we measured gut fullness of fishes caught in natural habitats. Contrary to our predictions, we could not find P. formosa to be less efficient in feeding. We argue that food competition in mollies plays a minor role in mediating coexistence between closely related asexual and sexual mollies.
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