Beauty varies with the light

Ole Seehausen ()
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Ole Seehausen: Ole Seehausen is at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Kastanienbaum, Switzerland.

Nature, 2015, vol. 521, issue 7550, 34-35

Abstract: Experimental work on guppies suggests that variation in light between microhabitats is what makes females prefer different male signal combinations, thus explaining the evolution and persistence of colour variation in males.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1038/521034a

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