Polyandry in fish

Polyandry in fishes is a mating system where females mate with multiple males within one mating season.[1] This type of mating exists in a variety of animal species.[1] Polyandry has been found in both oviparous and viviparous bony fishes and sharks.[2] General examples of polyandry occur in fish species, such as green swordtails[1] and Trinidadian guppies.[3] Specific types of polyandry have also been classified, such as classical polyandry in pipefish[4] cooperative polyandry in cichlids[5] and convenience polyandry in sharks.[6]

  1. ^ a b c Simmons, L. W., Beveridge, M. & Evans, J. P. Molecular evidence for multiple paternity in a feral population of green swordtails. The Journal of heredity 99, 610–5 (2008).
  2. ^ Portnoy, D. S., Piercy, A. N., Musick, J. a, Burgess, G. H. & Graves, J. E. Genetic polyandry and sexual conflict in the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, in the western North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Molecular ecology 16, 187–97 (2007).
  3. ^ Barbosa, M., Dornelas, M. & Magurran, a E. Effects of polyandry on male phenotypic diversity. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23, 2442–52 (2010).
  4. ^ Coleman, S. W. & Jones, A. G. Patterns of multiple paternity and maternity in fishes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 103, 735–760 (2011).
  5. ^ Avise, J. C., Jones, A. G., Walker, D. & DeWoody, J. A. Genetic mating systems and reproductive natural histories of fishes: lessons for ecology and evolution. Annual Review of Genetics 36, 19–45 (2002).
  6. ^ Griffiths, A. M. et al. First analysis of multiple paternity in an oviparous shark, the small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula L.). The Journal of heredity 103, 166–73 (2012).