High-pitched notes during vocal contests signal genetic diversity in ocellated antbirds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Araya Ajoy, Yi men ^a   Chaves Campos, Johel ^b,f   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^c,d   DeWoody, J Andrew ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f University of New Orleans   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCELLATED ANTBIRD; PITCH; VOCALIZATION; ZYGOSITY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY; RECORDING; SONGBIRD; SOUND DETECTION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PHAENOSTICTUS MCLEANNANI;

ACOUSTICS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; GENETIC VARIATION; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SONGBIRDS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TAPE RECORDING; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 77949532887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008137     Document Type: Article

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