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Male mate choice scales female ornament allometry in a cichlid fish

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, October 2010
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (88th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (78th percentile)

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Title
Male mate choice scales female ornament allometry in a cichlid fish
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, October 2010
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-10-301
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Authors

Sebastian A Baldauf, Theo CM Bakker, Fabian Herder, Harald Kullmann, Timo Thünken

Abstract

Studies addressing the adaptive significance of female ornamentation have gained ground recently. However, the expression of female ornaments in relation to body size, known as trait allometry, still remains unexplored. Here, we investigated the allometry of a conspicuous female ornament in Pelvicachromis taeniatus, a biparental cichlid that shows mutual mate choice and ornamentation. Females feature an eye-catching pelvic fin greatly differing from that of males.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Romania 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 97 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 22%
Student > Master 21 21%
Researcher 13 13%
Student > Bachelor 8 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 7%
Other 19 19%
Unknown 12 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 75 74%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 3%
Environmental Science 2 2%
Neuroscience 2 2%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 <1%
Other 3 3%
Unknown 16 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 February 2022.
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#3,202,062
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Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#845
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#12,876
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#11
of 51 outputs
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