Color patterns and associated behaviors in the kelp bass, Paralabrax...

Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences);  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......ephemeral color patterns in the kelp bass, Paralabrax clathratus, were...Some species exhibit permanent sexual dichromatism, where different color patterns...Thresher and Moyer 1983). The kelp bass, Paralabrax clathratus, is a...

Feeding ecology of juvenile kelp bass (Paralabrax clathratus) and barred...

Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences);  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Abstract.--Kelp bass (Paralabrax clathratus) and barred sand...otter-trawl tows (5m depth) collected kelp bass of 40-110mm SL range, and P. nebulifer...79.4% and 50.9%, respectively). In kelp bass, gammarids had highest IRI in summer...

The scythe butterflyfish, Prognathodes falcifer (Pisces: Chaetodontidae),...

Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences);  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......San Benito islands, we observed a large kelp bass, Paralabrax clathratus, and several scythe...1 m deep, and 0.75 m in height. The kelp bass was inside the cave and oriented horizontally...and not in close association with the kelp bass. The kelp bass then appeared to ...

KELP BASS DECLINE CAUSE FOR CONCERN.(SPORTS)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  March 14, 1996 ;     336 words ......natural reefs and man-made structures west of Santa Barbara. The kelp bass with their telltale checkerboard markings are fabled in these...commercial fishes. There's evidence that the population of kelp bass has declined over the last six years, but we're not sure why...

Sport Fish Thrive in La Jolla Marine Reserve

Sea Technology;  October 1, 2008 ;     394 words ......also reports finding the highest density of kelp bass recorded in the Southern California Bight...popular sport fish, California sheephead and kelp bass. Based on the diver counts, kelp bass antl sheephead are three and four limes more...

Molt, plumage abrasion, and color change in Lawrence's Goldfinch.

Wilson Bulletin;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......functions and evolution of such sexual dichromatism have interested investigators for...Goldfinch, C. tristis, increase sexual dichromatism before breeding by molting, whereas...proximate and ultimate causes of sexual dichromatism (King 1980, Walsberg 1983, but see...

Pacific dream: the dream of fishing distant San Clemente Island in a...

Trailer Boats;  August 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......yellowtail, white seabass, halibut and kelp bass. Yet, at roughly 55 miles from the closest...sampling San Clemente's legendary spring kelp bass fishing. The boats that made the trip...Catching and releasing as many as 100 kelp bass per day was par for the course, including...

Testosterone Regulates Sexually Dimorphic Coloration in the Eastern Fence...

Copeia;  August 2, 2005 ;     700+ words ......supporting the hypothesis that sexual dichromatism is regulated at least in part by...SEXUALLY dimorphic coloration, or sexual dichromatism, occurs when males and females of...and, ultimately, the evolution of sexual dichromatism across populations and species...

The fish assemblages inside and outside of a temperate marine reserve in...

Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences);  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......m.sup.2] inside versus outside) and kelp bass (Paralabrax clathratus, 3.6 [+ or...targeted. In southern California, the kelp bass (Paralabrax clathratus) and the California...substantial fisheries. Fishing pressure on kelp bass has increased over the last 50 years...

NEW HOME

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 30, 1997 ;     71 words ......the animals at the new Living Coast exhibit at Brookfield Zoo, which opens Thursday: FISH Bonnethead shark Hogfish Horn shark Kelp bass Ocean whitefish Roughjaw frogfish Tidepool sculpin Cownose ray BIRDS Brown pelican Grey gull Inca tern Humboldt penguin REPTILES...

Comparative relationships among eye color, age, and sex in three North...

Wilson Bulletin;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...In the Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii), a species with little or no sexual dichromatism in adult plumage (Rosenfield and Bielefeldt 1993), iris color shows an age dependent relationship, especially in males, with irides...

DOCTORAL STUDENTS AWARDED FELLOWSHIPS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 22, 2007 ;     257 words ......regulatory agency, such as the EPA. Morehouse's dissertation fellowship will support his research into the evolution of sexual dichromatism in butterfly wing coloration, and examine the roles of nitrogen limitation and sexual signaling. His work borrows heavily...

Geographic variation and reassessment of species limits in the "Masked"...

Wilson Bulletin;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......authority of R. C. Murphy (1936), who was reluctant to accord much weight to color characters in boobies because of their sexual dichromatism as well as individual variation. Murphy's caution was understandable, but it led him to overlook characters that we consider...

EFFECTS OF COLOR MANIPULATIONS ON CAPTIVE FLOCKS OF HOUSE FINCHES.

Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......coloration in captive house finches resulted in changes in their dominance interactions that support the hypothesis that sexual dichromatism in this species functions as a simple releaser signal. In May, interaction patterns among groups of males and red-dyed...

Cypseloides storeri, a new species of swift from Mexico.

Wilson Bulletin;  March 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ......restricted white chin patch, and occasionally white frosting on the lores, but never white on the center of the forehead. Sexual dichromatism appears negligible in the two male and one female specimens examined. DISTRIBUTION. -- Known from the mountains of southwestern...