Academics

Guppy Bibliography (1996 - 2004)

• Albers PCH.  2000.  Evidence for evolution of guppies in a semi-natural environment.  Netherlands Journal of Zoology.  50 (4):  425 – 433.
  
  
• Barinova AA, Nakajima M, Fujio Y.  1998.  Genetic variability and differentiation of both cultured strains and natural populations in the guppy Poecilia reticulata.  Fisheries Science.  64 (6):  898 – 902.
  
  
• Becher SA, Magurran, AE. 2000. Gene flow in Trinidadian guppies. Journal of Fish Biology 56: 241-259.
  
  
• Bozynski CC, Liley NR. 2003. The effect of female presence on spermiation, and of male sexual activity of ‘ready’ sperm in the male guppy. Animal Behaviour. 65: 53-58
  
  
• Briggs SE, Godin JGJ, Dugatkin LA.  1996.  Mate-choice copying under predation risk in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata).  Behavioral Ecology.   7(2):  151-157.
  
  
• Brooks R. 1999. Mate choice copying in guppies: females avoid the place where they saw courtship. Behaviour 136: 411-421.
  

With the same experimental design as Dugatkin, Brooks found that female guppies from a feral Australian population do not exhibit mate-choice copying. Contrary to his hypothesis, Brooks found that females avoided the side of the tank where they had observed courtship behaviors and that perhaps this behavior can be attributed to foraging strategy or predator avoidance.

• Brooks R. 2000. Negative genetic correlation between male sexual attractiveness and survival. Nature 406: 67-70.
  
  
• Brooks R, Caithness N. 1999. Intersexual and intrasexual selection, sneak copulation and male ornamentation in guppies. South African Journal of Zoology 34(2): 48-52.
  
  
• Brooks R, Endler JA. 2001. Female guppies agree to differ: phenotypic and genetic variation in mate- choice behavior and the consequences for sexual selection. Evolution. 55 (8):1644-1655.
  
  
•  Brown GE, Godin JGJ.  1999.  Chemical signals in wild Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata).  Canadian Journal of Zoology.  77:  562 – 570.
  
  
• Brown C, Laland KN. 2002. Social learning of a novel avoidance task in the guppy conformity and social release. Animal Behaviour. 64: 41-47.
  
  
• Carvalho GR, Shaw PW, Hauser L.  1996.  Artificial introductions, evolutionary change and population differentiation in Trinidadian guppies (Poecialia reticulata:  Poeciliidae).  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.  57:  219 – 234.
  
  
• Dugatkin LA. 1998. A Comment on LaFleur et al's re-evaluation of mate-choice copying in guppies. Animal Behavior 56: 513-514.
  
  
• Dugatkin LA, Godin JJ. 1998. Effects of hunger on mate-choice copying in the guppy. Ethology 104: 194-202.
  
  By manipulating the time that female guppies were able to feed Dugatkin and Godin found that the most well-fed female guppies exhibited mate-choice copying. These results were contrary the predictions that female guppies attempt to mate-choice copy in order to maximize foraging time.
  
  
• Dugatkin LA, Wilson DS. 2000. Assortative interactions and the evolution of cooperation during predator inspection in guppies. Evolutionary Ecology Research 2: 761-767.
  
  
• Evans JP, Magurran AE. 1999. Geographic variation in sperm production by Trinidadian guppies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 266: 2083-2087.
  
  
• Evans JP, Magurran AE. 1999. Male mating behaviour in sperm competition characteristics under varying sperm competition risk in guppies. Animal Behaviour 58: 1001-1006.
  
  
• Evan JP, Pilastro A, Ramnarine IW. 2003. Sperm transfer through forced matings and its evolutionary implications in natural guppy (Poecilia reticulata) populations. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 78: 605-612.
  
  
• Evans JP, Zane L, Francescato S, Pilastro A. 2003.  Directional postcopulatory sexual selection revealed by artificial insemination. Nature. 421: 360-363.
  
  
• Galef BG, White DJ. 2000. Evidence of social effects on mate choice in vertebrates. Behavioural Processes 51: 167-175.
  
  
• Godin JJ, Dugatkin LA. Godin JJ, Dugatkin LA. 1996. Female mating preference for bold males in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 93: 10262-10267. 
  
  This experiment discusses traits in males (conspicuous colors) that reveal overall quality and how females choose males to gain fitness. The results support that the visual conspicuousness in the color pattern of males correlates positively with boldness from a cichlid fish predator.
  
  
• Godin JGJ, McDonough HE. 2003. Predator preference for brightly colored males in the guppy: a viability cost for a sexual selected trait. Behavioral Ecology. 14 (2): 194-200.
  
  
• Gong A, Gibson RM.  1996.  Reversal of a female preference after visual exposure to a predator in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata.  Animal Behavior.  52:  1007 – 1015.
  
  
• Grether GF.  2000.  Carotenoid limitation and mate preference evolution:  A test of the indicator hypothesis in guppies (Poecilia reticulata).  Evolution.  54 (5):  1712 – 1724.
  
  
• Grether GF, Houdin J, Millie DF. 1999. Carotenoid limitation of sexual coloration along an environmental gradient in guppies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 266: 1317-1322.
  
  
• Griffiths SW.1996. Sex differences in the trade-off between feeding and mating in the guppy. Journal of Fish Biology 48: 891-898. 

 A study was done on examining foraging time versus mating. The results were that the female guppies foraged significantly less when males were present, showing that harassment by males takes affects female health. Both males and females foraged less when members of the opposite sex were present.

• Griffiths SW, Magurran AE.  1999.  Schooling decisions in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) are based on familiarity rather than kin recognition by phenotype matching.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.  45:  437 – 443.
  

• Griffiths SW, Magurran AE. 1998. Sex and schooling behaviour in the Trinidadian guppy. Animal Behaviour 56: 689-693.

Female guppies from the Tacarigua River in Trinidad preferred to school with familiar conspecifics in order to gain antipredator and foraging advantages while male guppies gain increased mobility for better mating opportunities by trade off schooling decisions. Further experimentation could support the hypothesis that schooling behaviors relate to gene flow, cooperative behavior, and population differentiation.

• Griffiths SW, Magurran AE.  1997.  Schooling preferences for familiar fish vary with group size in a wild guppy population.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.  264:  547 – 551.
  
  
• Houde AE, Hankes MA.  1997.  Evolutionary mismatch of mating preferences and male colour patterns in guppies.  Animal Behavior.  53:  343 – 351.
  

• Hughes KA, Du L, Rodd HF, and Reznick DN. 1999. Familiarity Leads to Female Mate Preference for Novel Males in the Guppy, Poecilia reticulata. The Association for the Study of Animal Behavior 58: 907-916.

The researchers tested the hypothesis that frequency-dependent mate choice contributes to the maintenance of color varied guppies. They found that females were more likely to mate with males having novel color patterns.

• Jirotkul M. 1999. Population density influences male-male competition in guppies. Animal Behaviour 58: 1169-1175.
  
  
• Jirotkul M.  1999.  Operational sex ratio influences female preference and male-male competition in guppies.  Animal Behaviour.  58:  287 – 294.
  
  
• Jirotkul M. 2000. Operational sex ratio influences the opportunity for sexual selection in guppies. Journal of Fish Biology 56: 739-741.
  
  
• Jirotkul M.  2000.  Male trait distribution determined alternative mating tactics in guppies.  Journal of Fish Biology.  56:  1427 – 1434.
  
  
• Kelly CD, Godin JGJ, Wright JM. 1999. Geographical variation in multiple paternity within natural populations of the guppy. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 266(1436): 2403-2408.
  
  
• Kelley JL, Graves JA, and Magurran AE. 1999. Familiarity breeds contempt in guppies. Nature 401: 661-662.

Male guppies direct more of their courtship behavior towards unfamiliar females from different pools. Males either have the cognitive skills to recognize familiar females or behavior patterns that increase the likelihood of encountering new ones.

• Kodric-Brown A, Nicoletto PF. 2001. Age and experience affect female choice in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). The American Naturalist. 157 (3): 316-323.
  
  

• Kodric-Brown A.  1998.  Sexual dichromatism and temporary color changes in the reproduction of fishes.  American Zoology.  38:  70 – 81.
  

• Kodric-Brown A, Nicoletto PF.  1997.  Repeatability of female choice in the guppy:  response to live and videotaped males.  Animal Behavior.  54:  369 – 376.
  
  
• Kodric-Brown A, Nicoletto PF.  1996.  Consensus among females in their choice of males in the guppy Poecilia reticulata.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.  39:  395 – 400.
  
  
• Koops MA, Abrahams MV.  1999.  Assessing the ideal free distribution:  Do guppies use aggression as public information about patch quality?  Ethology.  105:  737 – 746.
  
  
• Lachlan RF, Crooks L, Laland KN.  1998.  Who follows whom?  Shoaling preferences in social learning of foraging information in guppies.  Animal Behavior.  56:  181 – 190.
  

• LaFleur DL, Lonzano GA, & Sclafani M. 1997. Female mate-choice copying in guppies, Poecilia reticulata: a re-evaluation. Animal Behavior 54: 579-586.

Through a parallel experiment to Dugatikin's "groundbreaking" experiment showing female mate-choice copying, LaFleur et al. found contrary results. However, the difference in LaFleur et al.'s experiment was the use of pet store guppies rather than those from the Tuture River in Trinidad and perhaps this contributed to the opposite conclusion that female guppies do not exhibit mate-choice copying.

• Laland KN, Reader SM.  1999.  Foraging innovation in the guppy.  Animal Behaviour.  57:  331 – 340.
  
  
• Laland KN, Reader SM.  1999.  Foraging innovation is inversely related to competitive ability in male but not in female guppies.  Behavioral Ecology.  10 (3):  270 – 274. 
  
  
• Laland KN, Williams K.  1997.  Shoaling generates social learning of foraging information in guppy.  Animal Behavior.  53:  1161 – 1169.
  
  
• Laland KN, Williams K.  1998.  Social transmission of maladaptive information in the guppy.  Behavioral Ecology.  9 (5):  493 – 499.
  
  
• Long KD, Rosenqvist G.  1998.  Changes in male guppy courting distance in response to a fluctuating light environment.    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.  44:  77 – 83.
  
  
• Lopez S. 1998 Acquired Resistance Affects Male Sexual Display and Female Choice in Guppies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 265: 717-723.

Male guppies that acquired resistance after infection were found to display more than the ones that did not acquire resistance. This suggests that once an immunity is built up by a male, he can afford to incur higher costs for sexual characteristics.

• Lopez S. 1999. Parasitized Female Guppies Do Not Prefer Showy Males. Animal Behavior 57: 1129-1134.

Females infected with parasites were less discriminatory than healthy ones. Their level of activity during choice trials was reduced with increasing parasite load.

• Magurran, AE, Garcia, CM. 2000. Sex differences in behaviour as an indirect consequence of mating system. Journal of Fish Biology 57: 839-857.
  
  
• Magurran AE, May RM.  1999.  Evolution of Biological Diversity.  Oxford University Press.
  
  
• Magurran, AE, Paxton CGM, Seghers BH, Shaw PW, & Carvalho GR. 1996. Genetic divergence, female choice and male mating success in Trinidadian guppies. Behaviour 133: 503-517.

To determine whether the genetic divergence of guppy populations in the Trinidadian drainages, the Caroni and Oropuche, is due to reproductive isolation, comparative observations were made concerning mate choice of familiar and unfamiliar populations. Results suggested that female guppies do not exhibit preference for their familiar and this is due to constrained choice from predation risk.

• Matthews M, Evans JP, Magurran AE.  1997.  Male display rate reveals ejaculate characteristics in the Trinidadian guppy Poecilia reticulata.    Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.  264:  695 – 700.
  
  
• Morell V. 2002. Guppy sex and gluttony guided by orange glow. Science. 295: 1816-1817.
  
  
• Nakajima M, Shinohara E, Fujio Y.  1999.  Fluorescent chromatophore detected in the guppy Poecilia reticulata.  Zoological Science.  16:  745 – 747.
  
  
• Neff BD, Fu P, Gross MR. 2000.  Microsatellite multiplexing in fish.  American Fisheries Society.  129:  584 – 593. 
  

• Nicoletto PF. 1996. The influence of water velocity on the display behavior of male guppies, Poecilia reticulata. Behavioral Ecology 7(3): 272-278.

Male guppies from high water velocity areas have longer displays, higher swimming speeds, wider caudal peduncles, and were more attractive to females than males from low water velocity areas. The increase in display rate is due to increased muscular strength in guppies from high water velocity areas.

• Nicoletto PF, Kodric-Brown A. 1999. The relationship among swimming performance, courtship behavior and carotenoid pigmentation in four rivers of Trinidad. Environmental Biology of Fishes 55: 227-235.

The courtship behavior of Trinidadian guppies depends on the condition of the river. Guppies from headwater sites have significantly greater swimming performance, higher display rates and more orange color than guppies from downstream sites. The swimming performance of guppies is directly correlated to the speed of water and the display rate.

• Nicoletto PF, Kodric-Brown A. 1999. The use of digitally-modified videos to study the function of ornamentation and courtship in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata. Environmental Biology of Fishes 56: 333-341.

This experiment used digitally-modified videos to evaluate female response to males, which were altered either according to their behavioral display or the colors of ornamentation. It was found that females prefer male images with more aggressive courtship displays, but do not prefer a difference in spot size. This suggests females discriminate more strongly between the behavior of males rather than their ornamentation.

• Nordell SE.  1998.  The response of female guppies, Poecilia reticulata, to chemical stimuli from injured conspecifics.  Environmental Biology of Fishes.  51:  331 – 338.
  
  
• O’Steen S, Cullum AJ, Bennett AF. 2002. Rapid evolution of escape ability in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Evolution. 56 (4): 776-784.
  
  
• Paxton CGM.  1996.  Isolation and the development of shoaling in two populations of the guppy.  Journal of Fish Biology.  49:  514 – 520.
  
  
• Pilastro A, Simonato M, Bisazza A, Evans JP. 2004. Cryptic female preference for colorful males in guppies. Evolution. 58 (3): 665-669.
  
  
• Pilastro A, Bisazza A. 1999. Insemination efficiency of two alternative male mating tactics in the guppy. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 266: 1887-1891.
  
  
• Pitcher TE, Neff BD, Rodd FH, Rowe L. 2003. Multiple mating and sequential mate choice in guppies: females trade up. Proceedings of the Royal Society. 270: 1623-1629.
  
  
• Reader SM, Laland KN. 2000. Diffusion of foraging innovations in the guppy. Animal Behaviour 60: 175-180.
  
  
• Reznick D.  1996.  Life history evolution in guppies:  A model system for the empirical study of adaptation.  Netherlands Journal of Zoology.  46 (3-4):  172 – 190.
  
  
• Reznick D.  1997.  Life history evolution in guppies (Poecialia reticulata):  guppies as a model for studying the evolutionary biology of aging.  Experimental Gerontology.  32 (3):  245 – 258.
  
  
• Reznick DN, Bryga HA.  1996.  Life-history evolution in guppies (Poecilia reticulata:  Poeciliidae).  V.  Genetic basis of parallelism in life histories.  The American Naturalist.  147 (3):  339 – 359.
  
  
• Reznick DN, Butler MJ, Rodd FH, Ross P.  1996.  Life-history evolution in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) 6.  Differential mortality as a mechanism for natural selection.  Evolution.  50 (4):  1651 – 1660.
  
  
• Reznik DN, Rodd FH, Cardenas M.  1996.  Life-history evolution in guppies (Poecilia reticulata:  Poeciliidae).  IV.  Parallelism in life-history phenotypes.  The American Naturalist.  147 (3):  319 – 338.
  
  
• Reznick DN, Shaw FH, Rodd FH, Shaw RG.  1997.  Evaluation of the rate of evolution in natural populations of guppies (Poecilia reticulata).  Science.  275:  1934 – 1937.
  
  
• Richards GR, Chubb JC.  1996.  Host response to initial challenge infections, following treatment, of Gyrrodactylus bullatarudis and G. turnbulli (Monogenea) on the guppy (Poecilia reticulata).  Parasitol Res.  82:  242 – 247.
  
  
• Rodd FH, Reznick DN.  1997.  Variation in the demography of guppy populations:  the importance of predation and life histories.  Ecology.  78 (2):  405 – 418.
  
  
• Rodd FH, Reznick DN, Sokolowski MB.  1997.  Phenotypic plasticity in the life history traits of guppies:  responses to social environment.  Ecology.  78 (2):  419 – 433.
  
  
• Rosenqvist G, Houde AE.  1997.  Prior exposure to male phenotypes influences mate choice in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata.  Behavioral Ecology.  8 (2):  194 – 198.
  
  
• Sargent RC, Rush VN, Wisdensen BD, Yan HY.  Courtship and mate choice in fishes:  Integrating behavioral and sensory ecology.  American Zoology.  38:  82 – 96.
  
  
• Sheridan L, Pomiankowski A.  1997.  Female choice for spot asymmetry in the Trinidadian guppy.  Animal Behavior.  54:  1523 – 1529.
  
  
• Sheridan L, Pomiankowski A.  1997.  Fluctuating asymmetry, spot asymmetry and inbreeding depression in the sexual coloration of male guppy fish.  Heredity.  79:  515 – 523.
  
  
• Smith EJ, Partridge JC, Parsons KN, Whites EM, Cuthill IC, Bennett ATD, Church SC. 2002. Ultraviolet vision and mate choice in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Behavioral Ecology. 13 (1): 11-19.
  
  
• Swaney W, Kendal J, Capon H, Brown C, Laland KN. 2001. Familiarity facilitates social learning of foraging behaviour in the guppy. Animal Behaviour. 62: 591-598.
  
  
• Warburton K, Lees N. 1996. Species discrimination in guppies: learned responses to visual cues. Animal Behaviour 52: 371-378.

A study of discrimination between conspecifics and heterospecifics in guppies was tested. The main finding supported that guppies associate more with those they were reared with, showing that familiarity plays a role in this discriminating behavior.

• Webster MS, Robinson SK. 1999. Courtship disruption and male mating strategies: examples from female-defense mating systems. The American Naturalist. 154 (6): 717-729
  
  

• Weetman D, Atkinson D, Chubb JC.  Effects of temperature on anti-predator behviour in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata.  Animal Behavior.  55:  1361 – 1272.
  
  
• Weetman D, Atkinson D, Chubb JC.  Water temperature influences the shoaling decisions of guppies, Poecilia reticulata, under predation threat.  Animal Behaviour.  58:  735 – 741.
  
  
• White EM, Partridge JC, Church SC. 2003. Ultraviolet dermal reflexion and choice in the guppy Poecilia reticulata. Animal Behaviour 65: 693-700.