{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["289(1982)"],"submitter":["Falk JJ"],"funding":["Cornell Department of Neurobiology and Behavior","Cornell Lab of Ornithology","Washington Research Foundation","Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute","Society for the Study of Evolution","National Science Foundation","American Society of Naturalists"],"pubmed_abstract":["Female-limited polymorphisms, where females have multiple forms but males have only one, have been described in a variety of animals, yet are difficult to explain because selection typically is expected to decrease rather than maintain diversity. In the white-necked jacobin (<i>Florisuga mellivora</i>), all males and approximately 20% of females express an ornamented plumage type (androchromic), while other females are non-ornamented (heterochromic). Androchrome females benefit from reduced social harassment, but it remains unclear why both morphs persist. Female morphs may represent balanced alternative behavioural strategies, but an alternative hypothesis is that androchrome females are mimicking males. Here, we test a critical prediction of these hypotheses by measuring morphological, p"],"journal":["Proceedings. Biological sciences"],"pagination":["20220332"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9449474"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Intersexual social dominance mimicry drives female hummingbird polymorphism."],"pmcid":["PMC9449474"],"pubmed_authors":["Rico-Guevara A","Rubenstein DR","Falk JJ","Webster MS"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Intersexual social dominance mimicry drives female hummingbird polymorphism.","description":"Female-limited polymorphisms, where females have multiple forms but males have only one, have been described in a variety of animals, yet are difficult to explain because selection typically is expected to decrease rather than maintain diversity. In the white-necked jacobin (<i>Florisuga mellivora</i>), all males and approximately 20% of females express an ornamented plumage type (androchromic), while other females are non-ornamented (heterochromic). Androchrome females benefit from reduced social harassment, but it remains unclear why both morphs persist. Female morphs may represent balanced alternative behavioural strategies, but an alternative hypothesis is that androchrome females are mimicking males. Here, we test a critical prediction of these hypotheses by measuring morphological, p","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Sep","modification":"2025-04-18T16:20:49.292Z","creation":"2025-04-07T03:28:48.339Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9449474","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36069013"],"doi":["10.1098/rspb.2022.0332"]}}