Signal Redundancy and Receiver Permissiveness in Acoustic Mate Recognition by the Tungara Frog, Physalaemus pustulosus |
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Authors: | STANLEY RAND, A. RYAN, MICHAEL J. Wilczynski, WALTER |
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Affiliation: | Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Balboa, Panama Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, panama and Department of Zoology, University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712 Department of Psychology, University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712 |
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Abstract: | The tungara frog has an advertisement call with two structurallyand functionally distinct components: the whine is both necessaryand sufficient for species recognition, and addition of chucksfurther enhances call attractiveness. Only the fundamental frequencyof the whine contributes to phonotaxis; the upper harmonicsplay no role. Furthermore, only a small portion of the whine,within the first 0100 msec, is necessary to elicit phonotaxis;there is some redundancy since either the 050 msec orthe 50100 msec portion elicits a response. Most of theremainder of the whine's fundamental further enhances call attractiveness.Only the amphibian papilla in the peripheral auditory systemis involved in decoding the whine. In stark contrast, severalchuck variants, which stimulate either the amphibian papillaor the basilar papilla, and white noise are as effective inenhancing call attractiveness as is the normal chuck, showingthat either peripheral end organ can be involved in the perceptionof a more attractive call. Thus there is greater receiver specificityfor decoding stimuli in interspecific mate choice, and greaterreceiver permissiveness for decoding stimuli in intraspecificmate choice; it appears that intraspecific mate choice can takeadvantage of a greater array of neural pathways for call decodingthan can interspecific mate choice. |
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