Question

24. Based upon the results of scoring performance differences between professional basketball players in the NBA and WNBA (Lailvaux et al. 2014), which sex showed a potential trade-off in performance allocation between the three scoring types measured in the study? Compensation between scoring types involved which types of shooting? Why would age promote trade-offs in performance traits in particular?

25. In the article, “The selective advantage of crypsis in mice” (Vignieri et al. 2010), which evolutionary process do the authors hypothesize is primarily shaping coat color in mice; and how do they experimentally demonstrate crypsis differs among coat colors and different coat colors have different fitness?

Answer 1

males

burst speed, strength, motor, and visual accuracy

25. visual hunting predators shape color patterning in Peromyscus mice

      By selection index quantifies the relative survival of two phenotypes, which are initially in equal
abundance—simply (a − b)/(a + b), in which “a” and “b” are the numbers of attacked individuals for each phenotypic class and measuring the cumulative cumulative survival probabilities of cryptic and noncryptic models overall and then separately in each habitat.