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Setting The Mood: Background Color And Guppy Mate Choice, Haley Schmid, Michael Thompson, Easton Smith, Kim Sullivan
Setting The Mood: Background Color And Guppy Mate Choice, Haley Schmid, Michael Thompson, Easton Smith, Kim Sullivan
Biology Posters
▪ There are two prevalent forms of sexual selection in the animals:Male-Male Competition and Female Choice
▪ Guppies (Poecilia reticulata) have been shown to demonstrate Female Choice
▪ Environmental factors, such as background color, have been shown to affect female interest in specific males
▪ Guppies tend to show interest in the color orange and we predicted that females would show a preference for males on an orange background