Dimensionality of mate choice, sexual isolation, and speciation.
Multiple cues, across multiple sensory modalities, are involved in mate choice in a wide range of animal taxa. This multiplicity leads to the prediction that, in adaptive radiations, sexual isolation results from divergence in multiple dimensions. However, difficulties in directly measuring preferences and detecting multiple effects limit our ability to empirically assess the number of independent traits contributing to mate choice and sexual isolation. We present an approach to estimate the dimensionality of sexual isolation using mating trials across groups of related populations. We analyze nine radiations: seven in fruit flies (Drosophila) and one each in salamanders (Desmognathus) and cichlid fishes (Pseudotropheus). We find strong evidence that multiple latent traits--linear combinations of phenotypic traits and preferences--are responsible for the patterns of sexual isolation in all nine radiations but that dimensionality has a strong upper limit. Just two latent traits are implicated in the majority of cases. Mapping along latent trait axes tests predictions of sexual-selection models and allows correlation with specific phenotypic traits and functional components of mate choice. We find support for the role of stabilizing natural selection on the sexually selected (male) traits. In the cichlids, latent-trait axes incorporate male-coloration patterns and exhibit convergence as well as divergence among populations. In the salamanders, temporal patterning in sensory modalities and male vs. female preferences are reflected in different latent-trait axes.
Hohenlohe
Paul A
PA
Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-2914, USA. hohenlop@science.oregonstate.edu
Arnold
Stevan J
SJ
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D023681:Cichlids / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D049810:Genetic Speciation; D008297:Male; D052586:Mating Preference, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010641:Phenotype; D014562:Caudata / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology
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