Song and female mate choice in zebra finches: a review

K Riebel - Advances in the Study of Behavior, 2009 - Elsevier
Zebra finches are an important model for vocal learning and avian mate choice. The two are
contingent on each other: males' learned songs are addressed at females with learned …

Condition dependence, developmental plasticity, and cognition: implications for ecology and evolution

KL Buchanan, JL Grindstaff, VV Pravosudov - Trends in ecology & …, 2013 - cell.com
Across taxa, both neural growth and cognitive function show considerable developmental
plasticity. Data from studies of decision making, learning, and discrimination demonstrate …

Low-quality females prefer low-quality males when choosing a mate

MJ Holveck, K Riebel - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mate choice studies routinely assume female preferences for indicators of high quality in
males but rarely consider developmental causes of within-population variation in mating …

An experimental demonstration that early-life competitive disadvantage accelerates telomere loss

D Nettle, P Monaghan, R Gillespie… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Adverse experiences in early life can exert powerful delayed effects on adult survival and
health. Telomere attrition is a potentially important mechanism in such effects. One source of …

Investigation of musicality in birdsong

D Rothenberg, TC Roeske, HU Voss, M Naguib… - Hearing research, 2014 - Elsevier
Songbirds spend much of their time learning, producing, and listening to complex vocal
sequences we call songs. Songs are learned via cultural transmission, and singing, usually …

A conceptual review of mate choice: stochastic demography, within‐sex phenotypic plasticity, and individual flexibility

M Ah‐King, PA Gowaty - Ecology and evolution, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Mate choice hypotheses usually focus on trait variation of chosen individuals. Recently,
mate choice studies have increasingly attended to the environmental circumstances …

Female zebra finches prefer high-amplitude song

M Ritschard, K Riebel, H Brumm - Animal Behaviour, 2010 - Elsevier
The intensity of a signal is crucial for animal communication because a high signal-to-noise
ratio improves signal reception. However, variation in amplitude may also have signalling …

Variation in reproductive success across captive populations: methodological differences, potential biases and opportunities

SC Griffith, OL Crino, SC Andrew, FY Nomano… - Ethology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of fundamental organismal biology has been disproportionately
influenced by studies of a relatively small number of 'model'species extensively studied in …

Taking the sensory approach: how individual differences in sensory perception can influence mate choice

KL Ronald, E Fernández-Juricic, JR Lucas - Animal Behaviour, 2012 - Elsevier
Many male signallers convey information to female receivers in multimodal courtship
displays. While much is known about how males vary in terms of signalling, variation in …

Female Lincoln's sparrows modulate their behavior in response to variation in male song quality

SP Caro, KB Sewall, KG Salvante… - Behavioral …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Sexually reproducing organisms should mate with the highest quality individuals that they
can. When female songbirds choose a mate, they are thought to use several aspects of male …