Vireo song repertoires and migratory distance: three sexual selection hypotheses fail to explain the correlation |
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Authors: | Mountjoy D James; Leger Daniel W |
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Institution: | Nebraska Behavioral Biology Group, Department of Psychology, University
of NebraskaLincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0308, USA |
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Abstract: | Previous studies have found a relationship between migrationand the degree of elaboration of sexually selected traits,but investigators have differed in the mechanisms they proposedto account for this association. We examined the relationshipbetween song repertoire size and distance migrated among birdsin the genus Vireo. There is a strong positive relationshipbetween migratory distance and repertoire size in this genus,but our data do not support the specific predictions of anyof the three proposed mechanisms (the "rapid pairing," "goodmigrations," and "territory lottery" hypotheses). Migrationdistance is presumably correlated with other life-history characteristicsthat influence the development of sexually selected traits. |
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Keywords: | bird song migration sexual selection song repertoires vireos |
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