Phylogenetic comparative analysis

Comparative bioacoustics: a roadmap for quantifying and comparing animal sounds across diverse taxa
Animals produce a wide array of sounds with highly variable acoustic structures. It is possible to understand the causes and …
Karan J. Odom, Marcelo Araya-Salas, Janelle L. Morano, Russell A. Ligon, Gavin M. Leighton, Conor C. Taff, Anastasia H. Dalziell, Alexis C. Billings, Ryan R. Germain, Michael Pardo, Luciana Guimarães de Andrade, Daniela Hedwig, Sara C. Keen, Yu Shiu, Russell A. Charif, Michael S. Webster, Aaron N. Rice
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Sex role similarity and sexual selection predict male and female song elaboration and dimorphism in fairy-wrens
Historically, bird song complexity was thought to evolve primarily through sexual selection on males; yet, in many species, both sexes …
Karan J. Odom, Kristal E. Cain, Michelle L. Hall, Naomi E. Langmore, Raoul A. Mulder, Sonia Kleindorfer, Jordan Karubian, Lyanne Brouwer, Erik D. Enbody, John Anthony Jones, Jenélle L. Dowling, Ana V. Leitão, Emma I. Greig, Christine Evans, Allison E. Johnson, Kimberley K. A. Meyers, Marcelo Araya-Salas, Michael S. Webster
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Breeding season length predicts duet coordination and consistency in Neotropical wrens (Troglodytidae)
Many animals produce coordinated signals, but few are more striking than the elaborate male–female vocal duets produced by some …
Emily L. Keenan, Karan J. Odom, Marcelo Araya-Salas, Kyle G. Horton, Matthew Strimas-Mackey, Megan A. Meatte, Nigel I. Mann, Peter J. B. Slater, J. Jordan Price, Christopher N. Templeton
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Does vocal learning accelerate acoustic diversification? Evolution of contact calls in Neotropical parrots
Learning has been traditionally thought to accelerate the evolutionary change of behavioural traits. We evaluated the evolutionary rate …
A. Medina-García, Marcelo Araya-Salas, T. F. Wright
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