Call duration as an indicator of genetic quality in male gray tree frogs

Science

Volumn 280, Issue 5371, 1998, Pages 1928-1930

  Welch, Allison M ^a   Semlitsch, Raymond D ^a   Gerhardt, H Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOUR; FROG; GENETIC QUALITY; MATE CHOICE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; FROG; GENETIC SELECTION; HEREDITY; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENES; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; HYLIDAE; REPTILIA;

EID: 0032546833     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5371.1928     Document Type: Article

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38. We thank B. Buchanan and J. Schwartz for help in assessing males in 1996; J. Krenz for help with artificial crosses in 1996; A. Bullerdieck for assistance in raising tadpoles in 1996; M. Cherry, M. Cunningham, J. Krenz, M. Parris, A. Pomiankowski, T. Ryan, and J. Schwartz for comments on the manuscript; and the many people who helped collect frogs. This work was supported by an NSF predoctoral fellowship (A.M.W.), NSF and NIMH grants (H.C.G.), and a Sigma Xi Grant-in-aid of Research (A.M.W.).