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Sex role similarity and sexual selection predict male and female song elaboration and dimorphism in fairy‐wrens [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Historically, bird song complexity was thought to evolve primarily through sexual selection on males; yet, in many species, both sexes sing and selection pressure on both sexes may be broader.
Karan J. Odom +17 more
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Female song rates in response to simulated intruder are positively related to reproductive success.
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2015 Bird song is well studied in males as a sexually selected behavior. However, although song is also common among females, it is infrequently examined and poorly understood.
Kristal E Cain +2 more
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Female song rate and structure predict reproductive success in a socially monogamous bird.
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016 Bird song is commonly regarded as a male trait that has evolved through sexual selection. However, recent research has prompted a re-evaluation of this view by demonstrating that female song is an ancestral and phylogenetically widespread trait. Species
Dianne Heather Brunton +2 more
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Female song and vocal interactions with males in a Neotropical wren
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2015 Bird song is thought to function primarily in same-sex competition, mate attraction, and reproductive stimulation of a partner. However, these conclusions are based largely on studies of the song of male birds in north-temperate species.
Michelle L Hall +2 more
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Quality of song learning affects female response to male bird song [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2002 Bird song is unusual as a sexually selected trait because its expression depends on learning as well as genetic and other environmental factors. Prior work has demonstrated that males who are deprived of the opportunity to learn produce songs that function little if at all in male-female interactions. We asked whether more subtle variation in male song-
Stephen Nowicki, William A Searcy
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016 Elaborate plumages and songs in male birds provide classic evidence for Darwinian sexual selection. However, trait elaboration in birds is not gender-restricted: female song has recently been revealed as a taxonomically-widespread trait within the ...
Wesley Howard Webb +5 more
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Animal Behaviour, 2015 As a textbook example of a sexually selected trait, song in male birds has been extensively examined in the context of female mate choice and male–male competition for access to mates. Female song is also phylogenetically widespread, and probably ancestral. However, we know relatively little about when and why females sing. Female song may be important
Kristal E Cain, Naomi E Langmore
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Is Hazel Grouse (Tetrastes bonasia) song the domain of males?
Tichodroma, 2022 In most birds, males are responsible for territory defence and mate attraction using a song. Females’ song is less frequent and usually produced for other reasons.
Šimon Kertys, Lucia Rubáčová
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Evolution of female song and duetting in the chaffinch (Fringilla) species complex
Journal of Avian Biology, 2023 Female song is ancestral to songbirds and shows considerable phylogenetic signal, but its presence also appears to be labile and correlated with life‐history and ecology.
Joseph E. J. Cooper +2 more
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Female song is widespread and ancestral in songbirds [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2014 Bird song has historically been considered an almost exclusively male trait, an observation fundamental to the formulation of Darwin’s theory of sexual selection. Like other male ornaments, song is used by male songbirds to attract females and compete with rivals. Thus, bird song has become a textbook example of the power of sexual selection to lead to
Odom, K.J. +4 more
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