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| Zuiderwijk, Annie. |
| Courtship display characteristics are described and compared for the newts Triturus cristatus and T. marmoratus and patterns of male competitive behaviour are recognized. In interpreting the data, the operational sex ratio has to be taken into account, which was highly biased towards males in both species, more in T. marmoratus than in T. cristatus. When sexual active, males of cristatus had more encounters than males of marmoratus, whereas the latter spent more time residing mating places. The male’s display towards a female differed in time structure, variability and in behaviour characteristics. T. marmoratus display follows a fixed pattern; males succeeded better in restraining a female than males cristatus did. Courting males cristatus allowed other... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Salamandridae; Triturus; Courtship behaviour; Sexual strategy; Competition. |
| Ano: 1990 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/504436 |
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| Zajc, I.; Arntzen, J.W.. |
| European newts (genus Triturus) are widely studied, but their phylogeny is not yet unambiguously resolved. Fragments of mitochondrial DNA experiencing different rates of evolution (the ATPase and 12S rRNA genes) were sequenced in order to test a phylogenetic hypothesis derived from biochemical and behavioral data. Well-supported branches of the existing phylogeny gained support in our study. The monophyletic origin of the hypothesized T. boscai — T. italicus clade remained ambiguous, whereas strong support was gained for the sister-taxon relationship of T. vulgaris and T. montandoni. The position of T. vittatus as a sister taxon to the T. marmoratus species group was also supported. The phylogenetic position of T. alpestris could not be clarified. With an... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: 12S rRNA; ATPase; Mitochondrial DNA; Newt; Phylogeny; Triturus. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/534335 |
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| Arntzen, J.W.; Jehle, R.; Bardakci, F.; Burke, T.; Wallis, G.P.. |
| Hybridization between divergent lineages often results in reduced hybrid viability. Here we report findings from a series of independent molecular analyses over several seasons on four life stages of F1 hybrids between the newts Triturus cristatus and T. marmoratus. These two species form a bimodal hybrid zone of broad overlap in France, with F1 hybrids making up about 4% of the adult population. We demonstrate strong asymmetry in the direction of the cross, with one class (cristatus-mothered) making up about 90% of F1 hybrids. By analyzing embryos and hatchlings, we show that this asymmetry is not due to prezygotic effects, as both classes of hybrid embryos are present at similar frequencies, implicating differential selection on the two hybrid classes... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Allozyme; Bateson–Dobzhansky–Muller incompatibility; Cytonuclear incompatibility; Hybridization; Microsatellite; MtDNA; Postzygotic isolation asymmetry; Triturus; 42.82. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/289893 |
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