caa a22 4500 465782612 CHVBK 20180323111959.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00180307 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00180307 Mate choice by female white-crowned sparrows in a mixed-dialect population [Elektronische Daten] [Glen Chilton, M. Lein, Luis Baptista] Summary: It has been argued that the song dialects of white-crowned sparrows, Zonotrichia leucophrys, may function to restrict gene flow between dialect populations, thus promoting adaptation to local environmental conditions. One proposed mechanism whereby this may occur is if a female mates preferentially with males singing her natal dialect, typically the song type of her father. Previous field and laboratory studies of the role played by song differences in mate choice by female white-crowned sparrows have produced equivocal results. These investigations were conducted in populations in which a single song dialect was predominant. We examined mate choice in a population in which two song dialects are equally common. We found that songs of mates of individual females in successive years were no more likely to be of the same dialect than expected by chance. In addition, individual females did not mate preferentially with males whose songs matched those of their fathers. We conclude that, in this population, females choose mates on the basis of characteristics other than song type. Springer-Verlag, 1990 Chilton Glen Division of Ecology (Behavioral Ecology Group), Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Calgary, Canada aut Lein M. Division of Ecology (Behavioral Ecology Group), Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Calgary, Canada aut Baptista Luis Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, 94118, San Francisco, CA, USA aut Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Springer-Verlag 27/3(1990-09-01), 223-227 0340-5443 27:3<223 1990 27 265 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00180307 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00180307 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chilton Glen Division of Ecology (Behavioral Ecology Group), Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Calgary, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lein M. Division of Ecology (Behavioral Ecology Group), Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Calgary, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Baptista Luis Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, 94118, San Francisco, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Springer-Verlag 27/3(1990-09-01), 223-227 0340-5443 27:3<223 1990 27 265 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer