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Below is a list of articles that will help you get a better understanding of the research background. There is also a list of journals where you may find additional useful information.
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| ARTCLES |
| Archard, G. A. and V.A. Braithwaite. 2011. Variation in aggressive behaviour in the poeciliid fish Brachyrhaphis episcopi: Population and sex differences. Behavioural Processes 86: 52-57 |
| Archard, G. A., I. C. Cuthill, and J.C. Partridge. 2009. Light environment and mating behavior in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64:169-182. |
| Baerands, G. P., P. R. Brouwer, and H.T. Waterbolk. 1955. Ethological studies on Lebistes reticulatus (Peters). I: An analysis of the male courtship pattern. Behaviour 8: 249-334. |
| Bakker, T. C. M. and W. J. Rowland 1995. Male mating preference in sticklebacks: Effects of repeated testing and own attractiveness. Behaviour 132: 935-935. |
| Boyles, K., R. Cruz, J. Luft, C. Williams, and A. Wright. 2015. The effectiveness of 3D printed models in studies of guppy (Poecillia reticulata) sexual selection. Journal of Introductory Biology Investigations: Special Issues in Fish Biology and Behavior. 2(3):1-10. |
| Dosen, L. D. and R. Montgomerie. 2004. Female size influences mate preferences of male guppies. Ethology 110: 245-255. |
| Dzieweczynski, T. L. and W. J. Rowland. 2004. Behind closed doors: Use of visual cover by courting male three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Animal Behaviour 68: 465-471. |
| Dzieweczynski, T. L., A. M. Bessler, D. S. Shelton, and W. J. Rowland. 2006. Effect of a dummy audience on Male–Male interactions in Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens. Ethology 112: 127-133. |
| Dzieweczynski, T. L., and A. K. Leopard. 2010. The effects of stimulus type on consistency of responses to conflicting stimuli in Siamese fighting fish. Behavioural Processes 85: 83-89. |
| Endler, J. A. 1987. Predation, light intensity and courtship behaviour in Poecilia reticulata (Pisces: Poeciliidae) Animal Behaviour 35: 1376-1385. |
| Endler, J.A. 1980. Natural selection on color patterns in Poecilia reticulata. Evolution 34:76-91. |
| Endler, J.A. 1991 Variation in the appearance of guppy color patterns to guppies and their predators under different visual conditions. Vision Research 31:587–608. |
| Farr J.A. 1980. Social behavior patterns as determinants of reproductive success in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata Peters (Pisces: Poeciliidae): an experimental study of the effects of inter-male competition, female choice, and sexual selection. Behaviour 74:38–91. |
| Farr, J. A. and W. F. Hernkind, 1974. A quantitative analysis of social interaction of the guppy, Poecilia reticulata (Pisces: Poeciliidae) as a function of population density. Animal Behaviour 22:582-591 |
| Francis, E., M. Ogle, G. Penna, K. Perkins, and J. Wormington. 2015. I’m warming up to you: Male guppies are attracted to warm colored females. Journal of Introductory Biology Investigations. 2:5,1-5. |
| Godin, J. G. J. and S.E. Briggs 1996. Female mate choice under predation risk in the guppy. Animal Behaviour 51:117–130. |
| Gong, A. 1997. The effects of predator exposure on the female choice of guppies (Poecilia reticulata) from a high-predation population. Behaviour 134:373-389. |
| Gong, A., and R.M. Gibson 1996. Reversal of female preference after visual exposure to a predator in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata. Animal Behaviour 52:1007-1017. |
| Gregg, T.C., E.C. Johnson, K.L. Kowal, and Z.S. Yarborough. 2015. The use of hetero-specific video presentations to elicit anti-predator responses in Poecillia. Journal of Introductory Biology Investigations: Special Issues in Fish Biology and Behavior. 2(3):11-15. |
| Herdman, E. E., C. D. Kelly, and J. J. Godin. 2004. Male Mate Choice in the Guppy (Poecilia reticulata): Do Males Prefer Larger Females as Mates? Ethology 110: 97-111. |
| Houde AE, 1997. Sex, color, and mate choice in guppies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. |
| Houde, A.E. and A. J. Torio. 1992. Effect of parasitic infection on male color pattern and female choice in guppies. Behavioral Ecology 3: 346-351. |
| Kodric-Brown, A. 1993. Female choice of multiple male criteria in guppies—interacting effects of dominance, coloration and courtship. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 32:415-420. |
| Kozak, H. L., L. A. Cirino, and M. B. Ptacek. 2008. Female mating preferences for male morphological traits used in species and mate recognition in the Mexican sailfin mollies, Poecilia velifera and Poecilia petenensis. Behavioral Ecology 19: 463-474. |
| López. S. 1998. Acquired resistance affects male sexual display and female choice in guppies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 265:717–723. |
| MacLaren, R. D. 2006. The effects of male proximity, apparent size, and absolute size on female preference in the sailfin molly, Poecilia latipinna. Behaviour 143: 1457-1472. |
| MacLaren, R. D. and A. Fontaine. 2012. Female preference for male lateral projection area in Poecilia reticulata. Environmental Biology of Fishes 93: 105-119. |
| MacLaren, R. D. and A. Fontaine. 2013. Incongruence between the sexes in preferences for body and dorsal fin size in Xiphophorus variatus. Behavioural Processes 92: 99-106. |
| MacLaren, R. D. and D. Daniska. 2008. Female preferences for dorsal fin and body size in Xiphophorus helleri: Further investigation of the LPA bias in poeciliid fishes. Behaviour 145: 897-913. |
| MacLaren, R. D. and W. J. Rowland. 2006a. Differences in female preference for male body size in Poecilia latipinna using simultaneous versus sequential stimulus presentation designs. Behaviour |
| MacLaren, R. D. and W. J. Rowland. 2006b. Female preference for male lateral projection area in the shortfin molly, Poecilia mexicana: Evidence for a pre-existing bias in sexual selection. Ethology |
| MacLaren, R. D., J. Gagnon, and R. He. 2011. Female bias for enlarged male body and dorsal fins in Xiphophorus variatus. Behavioural Processes, 87: 197-202. |
| MacLaren, R., W. J. Rowland, and N. Morgan. 2004. Female preferences for sailfin and body size in the sailfin molly, Poecilia latipinna. Ethology 110: 363-379. |
| Magellan K, L. B. Pettersson, and A. E. Magurran. 2005. Quantifying male attractiveness through henotypic size manipulation in the Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 58:366–374. |
| Majors, M., R. Kane, A. Ozgul, N. Koemel, and J. Agan. 2015. Color and size effects on male guppy mate selection. Journal of Introductory Biology Investigations. 2:5,1-4. |
| Millar N.P., D. N. Reznick, M. T. Kinnison, and A. P. Hendry. 2006. Disentangling the selective factors that act on male color in wild guppies. Oikos 113:1-12. |
| Newsom, C., N. James, K. Balkus, and K. Gifford. 2015. The use of video presentation in female guppy male choice experiments. Journal of Introductory Biology Investigations: Special Issues in Fish Biology and Behavior. 2(3): 16-21. |
| Rowland, W. J. 1975. The effects of dummy size and color on behavioral interaction in the jewel cichlid, Hemichromis bimaculatus Gill. Behaviour 53: 109-125. |
| Rowland, W. J. 1979. Some methods of making realistic fish dummies for ethological research. BehaviorResearch Methods and Instrumentation 11: 564-566. |
| Rowland, W. J. 1982. Mate choice by male sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Animal Behaviour 30:1093-1098. |
| Rowland, W. J. 1989. The ethological basis of mate choice in male threespine sticklebacks, Gasterosteusaculeatus. Animal Behaviour 38: 112-120. |
| Rowland, W. J. 1995. Do female stickleback care about male courtship vigour? Manipulation of display tempo using video playback. Behaviour 132: 951-961. |
| Rowland, W. J. 1999. Studying visual cues in fish behavior: A review of ethological techniques. Environmental Biology of Fishes 56: 285-305. |
| Rowland, W. J. and P. Sevenster. 1985. Sign stimuli in the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus): A re-examination and extension of some classic experiments. Behaviour 93: 241-241. |
| Rowland, W. J., K. J. Bolyard, J. J. Jenkins, and J. Fowler. 1995. Video playback experiments on stickleback mate choice: Female motivation and attentiveness to male colour cues. Animal Behaviour 49: 1559-1567. |
| Sathyan, R. and V. C. K. Couldridge. 2013. Female preference for blue in japan blue guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Environmental Biology of Fishes 96: 953-959. |
| Trainor, B. C. and A. L. Basolo. 2000. An evaluation of video playback using Xiphophorus helleri. Animal Behaviour 59: 83-89. |
| Werner, N. Y. and A. Lotem. 2006. Experimental evidence for male sequential mate preference in a lekking species. Ethology 112: 657-663. |
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