Dr Mic Pierotti's Outputs (3)

Male red throat coloration, pelvic spine coloration, and courtship behaviours in threespine stickleback (2016)
Journal Article
Wright, D. S., Yong, L., Pierotti, M. E., & McKinnon, J. S. (2016). Male red throat coloration, pelvic spine coloration, and courtship behaviours in threespine stickleback. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 17, 407–418

Background: In addition to exhibiting red nuptial throat coloration, male threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) often possess red coloration on their pelvic spines. Although
variation in throat colour has been shown to be associated with... Read More about Male red throat coloration, pelvic spine coloration, and courtship behaviours in threespine stickleback.

The peril of proportions: robust niche indices for categorical data (2016)
Journal Article
Pierotti, M. E., Martín-Fernández, J. A., & Barceló-Vidal, C. (2017). The peril of proportions: robust niche indices for categorical data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8(2), 223-231. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12656

Indices of niche breadth and niche overlap for categorical data are typically expressed in terms of proportions of resources use. These are unit-sum constrained data; hence, direct application of standard general linear modelling methods to such indi... Read More about The peril of proportions: robust niche indices for categorical data.

Differences in male coloration are predicted by divergent sexual selection between populations of a cichlid fish (2016)
Journal Article
Selz, O. M., Thommen, R., Pierotti, M. E., Anaya-Rojas, J. M., & Seehausen, O. (2016). Differences in male coloration are predicted by divergent sexual selection between populations of a cichlid fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1830), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0172

Female mating preferences can influence both intraspecific sexual selection and interspecific reproductive isolation, and have therefore been proposed to play a central role in speciation. Here, we investigate experimentally in the African cichlid fi... Read More about Differences in male coloration are predicted by divergent sexual selection between populations of a cichlid fish.