Journal ArticleBiological Invasions · November 1, 2024
Most research on the variables that allow for introduced species to succeed and become invasive has focused on environmental and ecological factors. Fewer studies have assessed the roles of behavioral and cognitive traits. To help fill this knowledge gap, ...
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Journal ArticleHormones and behavior · January 2024
Sex is ubiquitous and variable throughout the animal kingdom. Historically, scientists have used reductionist methodologies that rely on a priori sex categorizations, in which two discrete sexes are inextricably linked with gamete type. However, this binar ...
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Journal ArticlePloS one · January 2024
Animal culture evolves alongside genomes, and the two modes of inheritance-culture and genes-interact in myriad ways. For example, stable geographic variation in culture can act as a reproductive barrier, thereby facilitating genetic divergence between "cu ...
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Journal ArticleIntegrative and comparative biology · October 2023
"Sex" is often used to describe a suite of phenotypic and genotypic traits of an organism related to reproduction. However, these traits-gamete type, chromosomal inheritance, physiology, morphology, behavior, etc.-are not necessarily coupled, and the rheto ...
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Journal ArticleIntegrative and comparative biology · October 2023
What are the implications of misunderstanding sex as a binary, and why is it essential for scientists to incorporate a more expansive view of biological sex in our teaching and research? This roundtable will include many of our symposium speakers, includin ...
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Journal ArticleMolecular ecology · October 2023
Researchers often examine symbiont host specificity as a species-level pattern, but it can also be key to understanding processes occurring at the population level, which are not as well understood. The specialist-generalist variation hypothesis (SGVH) att ...
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Journal ArticleHormones and behavior · May 2023
Organismal behavior, with its tremendous complexity and diversity, is generated by numerous physiological systems acting in coordination. Understanding how these systems evolve to support differences in behavior within and among species is a longstanding g ...
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Journal ArticlebioRxiv · March 16, 2023
Widespread species often harbor unrecognized genetic diversity, and investigating the factors associated with such cryptic variation can help us better understand the forces driving diversification. Here, we identify potential cryptic species based on a co ...
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Journal ArticleThe American naturalist · March 2023
AbstractSexual selection is a major driver of trait variation, and the intensity of male competition for mating opportunities has been linked with sperm size across diverse taxa. Mating competition among females may also shape the evolution of sperm traits ...
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Journal ArticleFrontiers in Physiology · September 21, 2022
For decades, avian endocrinology has been informed by male perspectives and male-focused research, leaving significant gaps in our understanding of female birds. Male birds have been favored as research subjects because their reproductive behaviors are con ...
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Journal ArticleMolecular ecology · July 2022
In a rapidly warming world, exposure to high temperatures may impact fitness, but the gene regulatory mechanisms that link sublethal heat to sexually selected traits are not well understood, particularly in endothermic animals. Our experiment used zebra fi ...
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Journal ArticleHormones and behavior · July 2021
Our understanding of the proximate and ultimate mechanisms shaping competitive reproductive phenotypes primarily stems from research on male-male competition for mates, even though competition is widespread in both sexes. We evaluate the hypothesis that th ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Urban Ecology · January 1, 2021
Urbanization is one of the most extreme forms of land transformation and results in changes to ecosystems and species compositions. As a result, there are strong directional selection pressures compared to nearby rural areas. Despite a surge in research on ...
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ConferenceIntegrative and comparative biology · September 2020
Females of some species are considered sex-role reversed, meaning that they face stronger competition for mates compared to males. While much attention has been paid to behavioral and morphological patterns associated with sex-role reversal, less is known ...
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ConferenceIntegrative and comparative biology · September 2020
Like many scientific disciplines, the field of reproductive biology is subject to biases in terminology and research foci. For example, females are often described as coy and passive players in reproductive behaviors and are termed "promiscuous" if they en ...
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Journal ArticleWilson Journal of Ornithology · June 1, 2020
Species-specific vocalizations can act as a reproductive isolating mechanism between closely related populations. We analyzed vocal differences between 2 hybridizing species of sex-role reversed polyandrous shorebirds, the Northern Jacana (Jacana spinosa) ...
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Journal ArticleGeneral and comparative endocrinology · June 2020
Testosterone (T) mediates a variety of traits that function in competition for mates, including territorial aggression, ornaments, armaments, and gametogenesis. The link between T and mating competition has been studied mainly in males, but females also fa ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Ornithology · April 1, 2020
As urbanization expands globally, the communication systems of an increasing number of species are affected. Because bird song is a long-distance signal used to attract mates and defend territories, the evolution of bird song is often shaped by habitat str ...
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Journal ArticleMolecular and cellular endocrinology · October 2019
Hormones have the potential to bring about rapid phenotypic change; however, they are highly conserved over millions of years of evolution. Here, we examine the evolution of hormone-mediated phenotypes, and the extent to which regulation is achieved via in ...
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Journal ArticleEvolution; international journal of organic evolution · February 2019
Mating behavior between recently diverged species in secondary contact can impede or promote reproductive isolation. Traditionally, researchers focus on the importance of female mate choice and male-male competition in maintaining or eroding species barrie ...
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Journal ArticleBiological Invasions · November 1, 2024
Most research on the variables that allow for introduced species to succeed and become invasive has focused on environmental and ecological factors. Fewer studies have assessed the roles of behavioral and cognitive traits. To help fill this knowledge gap, ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleHormones and behavior · January 2024
Sex is ubiquitous and variable throughout the animal kingdom. Historically, scientists have used reductionist methodologies that rely on a priori sex categorizations, in which two discrete sexes are inextricably linked with gamete type. However, this binar ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticlePloS one · January 2024
Animal culture evolves alongside genomes, and the two modes of inheritance-culture and genes-interact in myriad ways. For example, stable geographic variation in culture can act as a reproductive barrier, thereby facilitating genetic divergence between "cu ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleIntegrative and comparative biology · October 2023
"Sex" is often used to describe a suite of phenotypic and genotypic traits of an organism related to reproduction. However, these traits-gamete type, chromosomal inheritance, physiology, morphology, behavior, etc.-are not necessarily coupled, and the rheto ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleIntegrative and comparative biology · October 2023
What are the implications of misunderstanding sex as a binary, and why is it essential for scientists to incorporate a more expansive view of biological sex in our teaching and research? This roundtable will include many of our symposium speakers, includin ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleMolecular ecology · October 2023
Researchers often examine symbiont host specificity as a species-level pattern, but it can also be key to understanding processes occurring at the population level, which are not as well understood. The specialist-generalist variation hypothesis (SGVH) att ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleHormones and behavior · May 2023
Organismal behavior, with its tremendous complexity and diversity, is generated by numerous physiological systems acting in coordination. Understanding how these systems evolve to support differences in behavior within and among species is a longstanding g ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticlebioRxiv · March 16, 2023
Widespread species often harbor unrecognized genetic diversity, and investigating the factors associated with such cryptic variation can help us better understand the forces driving diversification. Here, we identify potential cryptic species based on a co ...
Full textLink to itemCite
Journal ArticleThe American naturalist · March 2023
AbstractSexual selection is a major driver of trait variation, and the intensity of male competition for mating opportunities has been linked with sperm size across diverse taxa. Mating competition among females may also shape the evolution of sperm traits ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleFrontiers in Physiology · September 21, 2022
For decades, avian endocrinology has been informed by male perspectives and male-focused research, leaving significant gaps in our understanding of female birds. Male birds have been favored as research subjects because their reproductive behaviors are con ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleMolecular ecology · July 2022
In a rapidly warming world, exposure to high temperatures may impact fitness, but the gene regulatory mechanisms that link sublethal heat to sexually selected traits are not well understood, particularly in endothermic animals. Our experiment used zebra fi ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleHormones and behavior · July 2021
Our understanding of the proximate and ultimate mechanisms shaping competitive reproductive phenotypes primarily stems from research on male-male competition for mates, even though competition is widespread in both sexes. We evaluate the hypothesis that th ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleJournal of Urban Ecology · January 1, 2021
Urbanization is one of the most extreme forms of land transformation and results in changes to ecosystems and species compositions. As a result, there are strong directional selection pressures compared to nearby rural areas. Despite a surge in research on ...
Full textCite
ConferenceIntegrative and comparative biology · September 2020
Females of some species are considered sex-role reversed, meaning that they face stronger competition for mates compared to males. While much attention has been paid to behavioral and morphological patterns associated with sex-role reversal, less is known ...
Full textCite
ConferenceIntegrative and comparative biology · September 2020
Like many scientific disciplines, the field of reproductive biology is subject to biases in terminology and research foci. For example, females are often described as coy and passive players in reproductive behaviors and are termed "promiscuous" if they en ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleWilson Journal of Ornithology · June 1, 2020
Species-specific vocalizations can act as a reproductive isolating mechanism between closely related populations. We analyzed vocal differences between 2 hybridizing species of sex-role reversed polyandrous shorebirds, the Northern Jacana (Jacana spinosa) ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleGeneral and comparative endocrinology · June 2020
Testosterone (T) mediates a variety of traits that function in competition for mates, including territorial aggression, ornaments, armaments, and gametogenesis. The link between T and mating competition has been studied mainly in males, but females also fa ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleJournal of Ornithology · April 1, 2020
As urbanization expands globally, the communication systems of an increasing number of species are affected. Because bird song is a long-distance signal used to attract mates and defend territories, the evolution of bird song is often shaped by habitat str ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleMolecular and cellular endocrinology · October 2019
Hormones have the potential to bring about rapid phenotypic change; however, they are highly conserved over millions of years of evolution. Here, we examine the evolution of hormone-mediated phenotypes, and the extent to which regulation is achieved via in ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleEvolution; international journal of organic evolution · February 2019
Mating behavior between recently diverged species in secondary contact can impede or promote reproductive isolation. Traditionally, researchers focus on the importance of female mate choice and male-male competition in maintaining or eroding species barrie ...
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Journal ArticleCurrent Zoology · February 1, 2018
Research on sexual selection and hybridization has focused on female mate choice and male-male competition. While the evolutionary outcomes of interspecific female preference have been well explored, we are now gaining a better understanding of the process ...
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Journal ArticleBehavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · July 1, 2017
Abstract: Divergent phenotypes between lineages in the early stages of speciation can promote or impede reproductive isolation. Although divergence in male competitive morphology and behavior has been explored for many hybridizing lineages, it is less know ...
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Journal ArticleMolecular ecology · June 2017
Divergence in sexual signals may drive reproductive isolation between lineages, but behavioural barriers can weaken in contact zones. Here, we investigate the role of song as a behavioural and genetic barrier in a contact zone between two subspecies of whi ...
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Journal ArticlePloS one · January 2016
Soundscapes pose both evolutionarily recent and long-standing sources of selection on acoustic communication. We currently know more about the impact of evolutionarily recent human-generated noise on communication than we do about how natural sounds such a ...
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Journal ArticleBMC evolutionary biology · November 2014
BackgroundHybridization provides a unique perspective into the ecological, genetic and behavioral context of speciation. Hybridization is common in birds, but has not yet been reported among bird species with a simultaneously polyandrous mating sy ...
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