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Genetic And Social Control Of Male Maturation In Phallichthys Quadripunctatus (Pisces: Poeciliidae), Gita R. Kolluru, David N. Reznick
Genetic And Social Control Of Male Maturation In Phallichthys Quadripunctatus (Pisces: Poeciliidae), Gita R. Kolluru, David N. Reznick
Biological Sciences
Age and size at maturity can have significant fitness consequences. Selection often favors early-maturing individuals because of their higher survival to maturity and greater relative contribution to population growth rate, but it may also favor delayed maturation if fitness increases with age or size at maturity. Males of several poeciliid fishes exhibit variation in age and size at maturity primarily controlled by a sex-linked gene called the P-locus. Wild-caught Phallichthys quadripunctatus males show a bimodal size distribution, which is often associated with a P-locus polymorphism in other poeciliids. We conducted two experiments to evaluate the inheritance of male age and …