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Behavioral Ecology Vol. 12 No. 5: 553-557
© 2001 International Society for Behavioral Ecology

The discrimination of alternative male morphologies

Janne S. Kotiaho and Joseph L. Tomkins

Department of Zoology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6907, Australia

Address correspondence to J.S. Kotiaho, who is now at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, PO Box 35, FIN-40351, Jyväskylä, Finland. E-mail: jkotiaho{at}jyu.fi . J.L. Tomkins is now at the Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

Male dimorphisms represent alternative selective regimes within a sex. As such, they can be used as a powerful tool in testing evolutionary theory. However, to realize this potential, we need to be able to accurately discriminate individuals into two separate morphs. In this article we discuss the existing methods and propose a new one. We test our method with data from three dimorphic species and compare these results to results with existing methods. We conclude that existing methods often mis-classify a large proportion of individuals, but applying our method notably reduces these errors.

Key words: male dimorphism, morph discrimination, sexual selection, alternative reproductive strategies.


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