Browsing by Subject "Aves"
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Birdsong tuned to the environment: Green hylia song varies with elevation, tree cover, and noise
(2009)Animals that communicate acoustically must compete for acoustic space in order to convey their signals effectively. Tropical rainforest birds live in an extremely diverse acoustic community consisting of other birds, ...
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Novel courtship behavior in the Little Greenbul (Andropadus virens)
(2008)The Little Greenbul (Andropadus virens) is a common African forest bird that is thought to form monogamous pair bonds. In March 2007, I observed a male hanging below a presumed female perched on a branch, apparently ...
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Retinoid X receptor-γ gene expression is developmentally regulated in the embryonic rodent peripheral nervous system
(1998)The retinoid X receptor-γ (RXRγ) is a transcription factor that belongs to the thyroid hormone/retinoid family of nuclear receptors. Previous studies have shown that RXRγ is expressed in the developing peripheral nervous ...
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Territorial dynamics of Mexican Ant-thrushes Formicarius moniliger revealed by individual recognition of their songs
(2011)The ability to monitor interactions between individuals over time can provide us with information on life histories, mating systems, behavioural interactions between individuals and ecological interactions with the ...
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Testing alternative hypotheses for evolutionary diversification in an african songbird: Rainforest refugia versus ecological gradients
(2011)Geographic isolation in rainforest refugia and local adaptation to ecological gradients may both be important drivers of evolutionary diversification. However, their relative importance and the underlying mechanisms of ...
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Using songs to identify individual mexican antthrush formicarius moniliger: Comparison of four classification methods
(2009)This study compares the ability of four classification methods to distinguish between songs of individual Mexican Antthrush Formicarius moniliger: self-organizing maps (SOMs), discriminant function analysis, fuzzy logic ...