Developmental timing of signals affects information content: Song complexity but not consistency reflects innate immune strategy in male song sparrows

American Naturalist

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 660-670

  Kubli, Shawn P ^a   MacDougall Shackleton, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Developmental correlations; Innate immunity; Melospiza melodia; Song complexity; Song consistency; Song stereotypy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; COMPLEXITY; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEARNING; MALE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNAL; SONG; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL; CANADA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPARROW; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MALE; ONTARIO; SPARROWS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84898865936     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/675757     Document Type: Article

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