Animal signaling and function : an integrative approach /
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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; References; Chapter 2: Early Life-History Effects, Oxidative Stress, And The Evolution And Expression Of Animal Signals; Introduction; Signaling; Early Life-History Effects and Resource Allocation Trade-Offs; Oxidative Stress As a Mediator of Resource Allocation Trade-Offs; Signals Expressed During Development; Signals Expressed During Adulthood; Competition-Dependent Sexual Signals; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3: A Performance-Based Approach to Studying Costs of Reliable Signals; Introduction.
- Receiver-Independent Costs receiver-Dependent Costs; Compensatory Traits; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 4: Cognitively Driven Co-Option and the Evolution of Complex Sexual Displays in Bowerbirds; Introduction; Cognition, Co-Option, and Complex Display; Delayed Male Maturity, Male-Male Courtship, and Display Trait Acquisition; Female Signaling to Affect Male Display Intensity: An Innovation that Improves Courtship Success; Mate Searching and Flexibility in Adaptive Decision-Making; Female Uncertainty and Flexibility in Active Mate Assessment.
- Long-Term Age-Related Improvement in Decoration Display: Symmetrical Decoration Displays on Older Males' Bowers anticipation of Male Routes During Courtship: Paths on Display Courts of Spotted Bowerbirds; Some Other Possible Cognitive Display-Related Behaviors of Bowerbirds; Construction of Successive Scenes for Females Visiting the Bower; Cognitive Aspects of Bower Building: Age-Related Improvement in Construction and Novel Techniques for Maintaining Symmetry; Cognitive Flexibility and Innovation in Display; Decoration Stealing: An Innovation for Display Trait Acquisition.
- Cooperating with Relatives for Display: An Innovation to Reduce Sexual Competition vocal Mimicry: Learning and Innovation in Use of Co-Opted Displays; Co-Option Mechanism; Cognition in Display Trait Acquisition; References; Chapter 5: Integrating Functional and Evolutionary Approaches to the Study of Color-Based Animal Signals; Introduction; Color Signal Production in More Detail; Signals, Honesty, and Condition-Dependence; Coloration as An Honest Advertisement; Trinidadian Guppies (Poecilia reticulata); Pierid Butterflies (Subfamily Coliadinae); Birds; Discussion/Conclusion/Future Work.
- Acknowledgments references; Chapter 6: Agonistic Signals: Integrating Analysis of Functions and Mechanisms; Animal Contests and the Evolution of Agonistic Signals; Empirical Approaches to Testing Theory: "Physiological Costs," "Stamina," and "Performance"; Energy Status and Agonistic Signals; Whole Body Performance and Agonistic Signals; Conclusions; References; Chapter 7: Acoustic Signal Evolution: Biomechanics, Size, and Performance; Introduction; Biomechanics; Body Size; Performance; Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; References.