Análisis de la relación entre dimorfismo sexual de tamaño, sistema de apareamiento y tamaño corporal en los ictéridos (Icteridae)

Vanina D. Fiorini

doi:10.56178/eh.v17i1.885

Articles Published 01 August 2002 https://doi.org/10.56178/eh.v17i1.885

Analysis of the relationship between sexual size dimorphism, mating system and body size in the icterids (Icteridae)

body size Icteridae mating system phylogenetic comparative method sexual dimorphism

Vanina D. Fiorini Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Piso 4, Pab. 2, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EHA Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abstract

The relationship previously studied by Webster (1992) among sexual size dimorphism, mating system and body size in the icterids (Icteridae) was analyzed by using the original data, but also phylogenetically independent contrasts and a new molecular phylogeny. Sexual size dimorphism was positively related with body size as well as with harem size of the species. However, the relationship between body size and sexual dimorphism would be the result of the relationship between body size and poliginy degree and between poliginy degree and sexual dimorphism. These results agree with those found by Webster (1992).

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PAGEL MD (1992) A method for the analysis of comparative data. Journal of Theoretical Biology 156:431–442.
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Vanina D. Fiorini (2002). Analysis of the relationship between sexual size dimorphism, mating system and body size in the icterids (Icteridae). El Hornero, Vol. 17 No. 1 (2002), 17-23. https://doi.org/10.56178/eh.v17i1.885

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[1] ALEXANDER RD, HOOGLAND JL, HOWARD RD, NOONAN KM Y SHERMAN PW (1979) Sexual dimorphisms and breeding systems in pinnipeds, ungulates, primates, and humans. Pp. 402–435 en: CHAGNON NA E IRONS W (eds) Evolutionary biology and human social behavior: an anthropological approach. Duxbury Press, North Scituate.

[2] BJÖRKLUND M (1991) Evolution, phylogeny, sexual dimorphism and mating system in the grackles (Quiscalus spp.: Icterinae). Evolution 45:608–621.

[3] BLAKE ER (1968) Family Icteridae. Pp. 138–202 en: PAYNTER RA JR (ed) Check list of birds of the world. Volume 14. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge.

[4] BLUMSTEIN DT Y ARMITAGE KB (1998) Life history consequences of social complexity: a comparative study of ground-dwelling sciurids. Behavioral Ecology 9:8–19.

[5] BRASHARES JS, GARLAND T JR Y ARCESE P (2000) Phylogenetic analysis of coadaptation in behavior, diet, and body size in the African antelope. Behavioral Ecology 11:452–463.

[6] DÍAZ-URIARTE R Y GARLAND T JR (1998) Effects of branch length errors on the performance of phylogenetically independent contrast. Systematic Biology 47:654–672.

[7] FELSENSTEIN J (1985) Phylogenies and the comparative method. American Naturalist 125:1–15.

[8] GARLAND T, HARVEY PH E IVES AR (1992) Procedures for the analysis of comparative data using phylogenetically independent contrast. Systematic Biology 41:18–32.

[9] GARLAND T E IVES AR (2000) Using the past to predict the present: confidence intervals for regression equations in phylogenetic comparative methods. American Naturalist 155:346–364.

[10] GRAFEN A (1989) The phylogenetic regression. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 326:119–156.

[11] HARVEY PH Y PAGEL MD (1991) The comparative method in evolutionary biology. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

[12] HARVEY PH Y PURVIS A (1991) Comparative methods for explaining adaptations. Nature 351:619–624.

[13] IRWIN RE (1990) Directional sexual selection cannot explain variation in song repertoire size in the New World blackbirds (Icterinae). Ethology 85:212-224.

[14] IRWIN RE (1994) The evolution of plumage dichromatism in the New World Blackbirds: social selection on female brightness? American Naturalist 144:890–907.

[15] LANYON SM Y OMLAND KE (1999) A molecular phylogeny of the blackbirds (Icteridae): five lineages revealed by cytochrome-B sequence data. Auk 116:629–639.

[16] OAKLEY TH Y CUNNINGHAM CW (2000) Independent contrast succeed where ancestor reconstruction fails in a known bacteriophage phylogeny. Evolution 54:397–405.

[17] PAGEL MD (1992) A method for the analysis of comparative data. Journal of Theoretical Biology 156:431–442.

[18] PURVIS A Y RAMBAUT A (1995) Comparative analysis by independent contrasts (CAIC): an Apple Macintosh application for analyzing comparative data. Computer Applications in the Biosciences 11:247–251.

[19] REISS MJ (1989) The allometry of growth and reproduction. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

[20] WEBSTER MS (1992) Sexual dimorphism, mating system and body size in New World Blackbirds (Icterinae). Evolution 46:1621–1641.