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Superb fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus) sons and daughters acquire song elements of mothers and social fathers

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016
Birdsong is regarded as a classic example of a sexually-selected trait and has been primarily studied in systems with male song. Complex solo female song is emerging from the shadows of overlooked phenomena.
Christine eEvans, Sonia eKleindorfer
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Similar songs, but different mate localization strategies of the three species of Phaneroptera occurring in Western Europe (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae)

European Journal of Entomology, 2021
In bush-crickets, males produce a calling song to announce their presence to females. Females ready to mate respond either by a phonotactic approach or signal their presence acoustically by establishing a kind of duet.
Klaus-Gerhard HELLER, Martina HELLER, Marianne VOLLETH, Jörg SAMIETZ, Claudia HEMP   +4 more
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Song choice is modulated by female movement in Drosophila males. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Mate selection is critical to ensuring the survival of a species. In the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, genetic and anatomical studies have focused on mate recognition and courtship initiation for decades.
Alexander R Trott, Nathan C Donelson, Leslie C Griffith, Aki Ejima   +3 more
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Female song is structurally different from male song in Orchard Orioles, a temperate-breeding songbird with delayed plumage maturation

Journal of Field Ornithology, 2022
Female birds in many temperate species are thought to sing reduced or quieter songs and appear to sing less often than their male counterparts. Therefore, female song may be easily overlooked.
Michelle J. Moyer, Evangeline M. Rose, D'Juan A. Moreland, Aiman Raza, Sean M. Brown, Alexis L. Scarselletta, Bernard Lohr, Karan J. Odom, Kevin E. Omland   +8 more
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Context-dependent links between song production and opioid-mediated analgesia in male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Little is known about the neural mechanisms that ensure appropriate vocal behaviors within specific social contexts. Male songbirds produce spontaneous (undirected) songs as well as female-directed courtship songs.
Cynthia A Kelm-Nelson, Sharon A Stevenson, Lauren V Riters   +2 more
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Form and Function Predict Acoustic Transmission Properties of the Songs of Male and Female Canyon Wrens

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
To function effectively, animal signals must transmit through the environment to receivers, and signal transmission properties depend on signal form. Here we investigated how the transmission of multiple parts of a well-studied signal, bird song, varies ...
Lauryn Benedict, Braelei Hardt, Lorraine Dargis   +2 more
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Female signalling to male song in the domestic canary, Serinus canaria [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2015
Most studies on sexual selection focus on male characteristics such as male song in songbirds. Yet female vocalizations in songbirds are growing in interest among behavioural and evolutionary biologists because these vocalizations can reveal the female's
Mathieu Amy, Pauline Salvin, Marc Naguib, Gerard Leboucher   +3 more
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Multiple ornaments – multiple signaling functions? The importance of song and UV plumage coloration in female Superb Fairy wrens (Malurus cyaneus)

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016
Showy ornaments are considered as outcomes of sexual selection processes. They provide a badge of status to impress conspecific rivals or potential mating partners.
Katharina eMahr, Christine eEvans, Kerstin Elisabeth Thonhauser, Matteo eGriggio, Herbert eHoi   +4 more
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Sex-specific responses to simulated territorial intrusions provide evidence for relaxed selection pressure on female song in Orchard Orioles

Journal of Field Ornithology
Female song has been significantly understudied compared with male song, and our understanding of how this elaborate signal trait may function has been limited as a result.
Michelle J Moyer, Nagaraj K. Neerchal, Bernard Lohr, Jeff Leips, Eriberto Osorio, Ellie K Bare, Aiman Raza, Bukola A Molake, Kevin E Omland   +8 more
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Auditory and sexual preferences for a father’s song can co-emerge in female Bengalese finches

PLoS ONE, 2022
Birdsong is an important communication signal used in mate choice. In some songbird species, only the males produce songs. While the females of those species do not sing, they are sensitive to inter- and intra-species song variations, and the song ...
Tomoko G. Fujii, Kazuo Okanoya
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