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N-317 Guppies,
Mollies, Platys by Hieronimus 1993, paperback, 72 pages $6.95
RE-609 Guppies
Keeping & Breeding Them in Captivity by Mozart 1996, paperback, 64
pages, Focuses on keeping and breeding them in captivity. There's
information by experts on aquarium set-up, water quality, feeding, varieties
within a species, and the intricacies of breeding adults and raising fry.
$5.09
KW-058 Guppies
by Whitern hardback, 93 pages, 61 Color photos, This book, illustrated with many
full-color photos and drawings, presents sensible, easy-to-follow recommendations about
selecting and caring for Guppies. It concentrates on providing readers with the
information they need and want-all given in an interesting and easy-to read style.
$9.36
KW-049 Livebearers
by Whitern 64 pages, hardback, over 50 Color photos, This book, illustrated with many
full-color photos and drawings, presents sensible, easy-to-follow recommendations about
selecting and caring for Livebearers. It concentrates on providing readers with the
information they need and want-all given in an interesting and easy-to read style.
$9.36
RE-623 Mollies
Keeping and Breeding Them in Captivity By Glass 64 pages, paperback, many Color
photos, Focuses on keeping and breeding them in captivity. There's information by
experts on aquarium set-up, water quality, feeding, varieties within a species, and the
intricacies of breeding adults and raising fry. $5.95
N-907 My Guppy by Frank Schafer 2003, paperback, 72
pages $10.95
Sex, Color, and Mate Choice in Guppies By Anne E. Houde 1997, 224 pages, 6
halftones, 50 lines illustrations, 6 tablesThe Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata) is well known to biologists and home aquarium enthusiasts alike. Scientists have studied guppies for most of the twentieth century. Some of the most intensive recent research has been conducted by behavioral ecologists, who have found that the guppy mating system makes guppies especially useful in the study of sexual selection and mate choice. By observing guppy behavior in aquaria, researchers hope to obtain new insights into how selection operates in natural populations. Here Anne Houde summarizes and synthesizes the scientific work done to date, relates the empirical findings on guppies to current themes in sexual selection theory, and suggests new directions for future research.
This book describes the sexual behavior of guppies and examines how mate choice by females leads to the evolution of the conspicuous colors and the courtship displays for which guppies are widely recognized. The author shows that female guppies prefer males with bright color patterns, especially those with orange spots, and that the mating preferences of females lead to sexual selection on both color patterns and courtship displays of males. Houde's work addresses a number of areas that are of interest in sexual selection, including the remarkable degree of plasticity and evolutionary lability of sexual behavior in guppies, geographic variation in mating preferences, possible mechanisms for the evolution of female mating preferences, and the role of sexual selection in speciation. In conclusion, the author explores the implications of her findings for behavioral ecologists who study sexual selection in other species.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Guppy as a Model System 3 2 Reproductive Biology and Sexual Behavior 29 3 Choosy Females and Competing Males: Mechanisms of Sexual Selection 45 4 Male Courtship Behavior 80 5 Evolution of Female Choice 1: Direct Selection, Adaptive Plasticity, and Sensory Drive 104 6 Evolution of Female Choice 2: Indirect Selection, Variation, and Correlations 123 7 Summary and Prospects 155 Appendix Experimental Methods: How to Build a Better Bordello 165 References 177 Author Index 201 Subject Index 205 Taxonomic Index 209
TS-131 Swordtails
and Platies by Axelrod and Wischnath 192 pages, over 420 photos, hardback, The
authors of this magnificent volume have discussed, species by species, variety by variety,
all of the known forms existing at the present time. They have illustrated them with
outstanding color photographs, including their habitats, and told precisely where they can
be found in Central America, mainly Mexico, so you can collect your own. This book also
contains chapters on Guidelines for Judging Swordtails and Platies, a subject which has
NEVER been adequately covered and which can serve as a guide for fish competitions all
over the world, and Tail Patterns, a subject never covered as such. All in all, this is
the most complete and up-to-date book on the subject of one of the world's most popular
aquarium fishes. Its message is simply that these so-called 'beginner's fishes' are hardly
for beginners, but are, in reality, for the most advanced and skillful hobbyist.
$57.53
RE-616 Sworddtails
Keeping and Breeding Them in Captivity By Axelrod and Gordon paperback,
Focuses on keeping and breeding them in captivity. There's information by
experts on aquarium set-up, water quality, feeding, varieties within a species,
and the intricacies of breeding adults and raising fry. $5.09
U-64 Live Bearing
Aquarium Fishes by Jacobs Covers 156 species, 1971, hardback, 460 pages. $30.00