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Parental care in the Cuatro Ciénegas cichlid, Herichthys minckleyi (Teleostei: Cichlidae)

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Behavioral studies have often examined parental care by measuring phenotypic plasticity of behavior within a species. Phylogenetic studies have compared parental care among species, but only at broad categories (e.g., care vs. no care). Here we provide a detailed account that integrates phylogenetic analysis with quantitative behavioral data to better understand parental care behavior in the Cuatro Ciénegas cichlid, Herichthys minckleyi. We found that H. minckleyi occurs in a clade of sexually monochromatic or weakly dichromatic monogamous species, but that male and female H. minckleyi have dramatically different reproductive coloration patterns, likely as a result of sexual selection. Furthermore, we found that males are polygynous; large males guard large territories, and smaller males may attempt alternative mating tactics (sneaking). Finally, compared to the closely related monogamous Rio Grande cichlid, H. cyanoguttatus, males of H. minckleyi were present at their nests less often and performed lower rates of aggressive offspring defense, and females compensated for the absence of their mates by performing higher levels of offspring defense. Body color, mating system, and parental care in H. minckleyi appear to have evolved after it colonized Cuatro Ciénegas, and are likely a result of evolution in an isolated, stable environment.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Laura Alberici da Barbiano, Chelsea Blake, Caitlin Gabor, Jorge L. Hurtado-Gonzales, Michael Jennions, Hanna Kokko, Diane Neudorf, and Amanda Winn for their helpful comments on the manuscript. The Texas Natural History Collections at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology provided access to specimens. This work was supported by an Engineering Plus National Science Foundation—ADVANCE Opportunity Grant (R.G.O.); by the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin from funds granted to the Institute by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (D.A.H.); by the National Science Foundation Grants DEB-0916695 and DEB-1354149 (P.C.); and by the National Science Foundation Grant IOS-0843712, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Dwight W. and Blanche Faye Reeder Centennial Fellowship in Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, and an Institute for Cellular & Molecular Biology Fellowship (H.A.H.).

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  1. Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA

    Ronald G. Oldfield

  2. Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Ronald G. Oldfield

  3. Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA

    Ronald G. Oldfield & M. Xavier Nieves

  4. Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, The State University of New York, Syracuse, NY, USA

    Kapil Mandrekar

  5. Department of Integrative Biology and Texas Natural History Collections, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Dean A. Hendrickson

  6. Ichthyology Section, Museum of Natural Science, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

    Prosanta Chakrabarty

  7. Biology Department, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, USA

    Brook O. Swanson

  8. Department of Integrative Biology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Hans A. Hofmann

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Oldfield, R.G., Mandrekar, K., Nieves, M.X. et al. Parental care in the Cuatro Ciénegas cichlid, Herichthys minckleyi (Teleostei: Cichlidae). Hydrobiologia 748, 233–257 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-014-2081-4

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