Response Of Conspecifics To Reproductive Color Or Female Striped Plateau Lizards, Sceloporus Virgatus
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Several hypotheses have been posed to explain the evolution and current function of bright reproductive color found among females in over 30 species of iguanian lizards. I use the orange reproductive color of female striped plateau lizards (Sceloporus virgatus) to address two of the lesser examined hypotheses: the female signal and sex recognition hypotheses. The female signal hypothesis suggests that female reproductive color functions as a communication signal to conspecific females and predicts that females with more developed color will dominate over females with less developed color. I addressed this hypothesis by examining competition for basking sites and food resources among groups of females painted to express dark orange, pale orange, or no orange reproductive color. I found no consistent pattern to suggest that color affects these interactions: dark orange females had a slight and non-significant advantage in obtaining preferred basking sites, pale orange females were significantly more likely to obtain the first available prey item, yet there was no effect of female color on total number of prey eaten or on feeding sequence. The sex recognition hypothesis suggests that female color functions to improve gender identification. Resident males interacted with male intruders painted to express either male-typical color or female reproductive color in a sequential stimulus design. Intruder color had no significant effect on behavior of the resident. I suggest that other cues, including chemosensory signals, are more importa
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".