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Survival rates in a natural population of the damselfly Ceriagrion tenellum: effects of sex and female phenotype
Authors:Jose A Andrés  Adolfo Cordero Rivera
Institution:Departamento Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Universidade de Vigo, EUET Forestal, Pontevedra, Spain
Abstract:1. Ceriagrion tenellum females show genetic colour polymorphism. Androchrome (erythrogastrum) females are brightly (male‐like) coloured while gynochrome females (typica and melanogastrum) show cryptic colouration. 2. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the existence of more than one female morph in damselfly populations. The reproductive isolation and intraspecific mimicry hypotheses predict greater survival of gynochrome females, while the density dependent hypothesis predicts no differential survival between morphs. 3. Mature males had greater recapture probability than females while the survival probability was similar for both sexes. Survival and recapture rates were similar for androchrome and gynochrome females. 4. Gynochrome females showed greater mortality or migration rate than androchrome females during the pre‐reproductive period. This result is not predicted by the above hypotheses or by the null hypothesis that colour polymorphism is only maintained by random factors: founder effects, genetic drift, and migration.
Keywords:Damselflies  female colour polymorphism  recapture probability  survival probability
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