Year‐round resource defence and the evolution of male and female song in suboscine birds: social armaments are mutual ornaments

The evolution of sexually monomorphic (i.e. mutual) ornamentation has attracted growing attention as a ‘blind‐spot’ in evolutionary biology. The popular consensus is that female ornaments are subject to the same modes of sexual selection as males: intrasexual competition and mate choice. However, it...

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Published in:Journal of evolutionary biology 2011-10, Vol.24 (10), p.2118-2138
Main Authors: TOBIAS, J. A., GAMARRA‐TOLEDO, V., GARCÍA‐OLAECHEA, D., PULGARÍN, P. C., SEDDON, N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustic Stimulation
Acoustics
Animal communication
Animals
antbirds
armament–ornament model
Aves
Biological Evolution
Birds
breeding season
Breeding seasons
Competition
duetting
Evolution
Evolutionary biology
Female
female ornaments
female song
females
intrasexual competition
Male
males
Mate selection
Mating Preference, Animal
mutual ornaments
Passeriformes
Passeriformes - physiology
physiology
Playback
Sex
Sex Characteristics
Sexual selection
signal evolution
social selection
Song
Vocalization, Animal
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