Evolution of communication signals and information during species radiation

The roles of geography, climate and sexual selection in driving divergence among insect populations on mountaintops

(2019) Joaquina Pato et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Elevational differentiation accelerates trait evolution but not speciation rates in Amazonian birds

(2019) Vanessa E. Luzuriaga-Aveiga et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Symmetrical discrimination despite weak song differenciation in 2 suboscine bird sister species

(2019) Gabriel Macedo et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Testing the role of trait reversal in evolutionary diversification using song loss in wild crickets

(2019) Nathan W. Bailey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Acoustic monitoring of rock ptarmigan: A multi-year comparison with point-count protocol

(2019) Thibaut Marin-Cudraz et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Coevolution of vocal signal characteristics and hearing sensitivity in forest mammals

(2019) Benjamin D. Charlton et al.   Nature Communications

Sexual selection predicts the rate and direction of colour divergence in a large avian radiation

(2019) Christopher R. Cooney et al.   Nature Communications

Different languages, similar encoding efficiency: Comparable information rates across the human communicative niche

(2019) Christophe Coupé et al.   Science Advances

Subspecies discrimination on the basis of acoustic signals: a playback experiment in a Neotropical songbird

(2019) Alana D. Demko et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Song playbacks demonstrate slower evolution of song discrimination in birds from Amazonia than from temperate North America

(2019) Jason T. Weir et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Selection for rhythm as a trigger for recursive evolution in the elaborate display system of woodpeckers

(2019) Meredith Miles et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

ape 5.0: an environment for modern phylogenetics and evolutionary analyses in R

(2018) Emmanuel Paradis et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Global song divergence in barn swallows (Hirundo rustica): exploring the roles of genetic, geographical and climatic distance in sympatry and allopatry

(2018) Matthew R Wilkins et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Ecological drivers of song evolution in birds: Disentangling the effects of habitat and morphology

(2018) Elizabeth Perrault Derryberry et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Contrasting impacts of competition on ecological and social trait evolution in songbirds

(2018) Jonathan P. Drury et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Zebra finches identify individuals using vocal signatures unique to each call type

(2018) Julie E. Elie et al.   Nature Communications

Evolution of correlated complexity in the radically different courtship signals of birds-of-paradise

(2018) Russell A. Ligon et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Song evolution, speciation, and vocal learning in passerine birds

(2017) Nicholas A. Mason et al.   EVOLUTION

Evolution and plasticity: Divergence of song discrimination is faster in birds with innate song than in song learners in Neotropical passerine birds

(2017) Benjamin G. Freeman et al.   EVOLUTION

High-speed displays encoding motor skill trigger elevated territorial aggression in downy woodpeckers

(2017) Eric R. Schuppe et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Tapping the woodpecker tree for evolutionary insight

(2017) Subir B. Shakya et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The social context of a territorial dispute differentially influences the way individuals in breeding pairs coordinate their aggressive tactics

(2016) Eric R. Schuppe et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Drift-driven evolution of electric signals in a Neotropical knifefish

(2016) Sophie Picq et al.   EVOLUTION

Least-Squares Means: TheRPackagelsmeans

(2016) Russell V. Lenth   Journal of Statistical Software

What is information?

(2016) Christoph Adami   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

The evolution of acoustic size exaggeration in terrestrial mammals

(2016) Benjamin D. Charlton et al.   Nature Communications

No phenotypic signature of acoustic competition in songs of a tropical cricket assemblage

(2015) Arne K.D. Schmidt et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

NbClust: AnRPackage for Determining the Relevant Number of Clusters in a Data Set

(2015) Malika Charrad et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Ward’s Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering Method: Which Algorithms Implement Ward’s Criterion?

(2014) Fionn Murtagh et al.   JOURNAL OF CLASSIFICATION

Pervasive Reinforcement and the Role of Sexual Selection in Biological Speciation

(2014) Emily J Hudson et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Species interactions and the structure of complex communication networks

(2014) J. A. Tobias et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Character displacement of Cercopithecini primate visual signals

(2014) William L. Allen et al.   Nature Communications

Species coexistence and the dynamics of phenotypic evolution in adaptive radiation

(2013) Joseph A. Tobias et al.   NATURE

Fossil woodpeckers from Bermuda with the description of a new species ofColaptes(Aves: Picidae)

(2013) Storrs L. Olson   PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON

Key ornamental innovations facilitate diversification in an avian radiation

(2013) R. Maia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

SEEWAVE, A FREE MODULAR TOOL FOR SOUND ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS

(2012) JEROME SUEUR et al.   BIOACOUSTICS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SOUND AND ITS RECORDING

The systematic position ofHemicircusand the stepwise evolution of adaptations for drilling, tapping and climbing up in true woodpeckers (Picinae, Picidae)

(2012) Albrecht Manegold et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Secondary Sympatry Caused by Range Expansion Informs on the Dynamics of Microendemism in a Biodiversity Hotspot

(2012) Romain Nattier et al.   PLoS One

Evolutionary divergence in acoustic signals: causes and consequences

(2012) Matthew R. Wilkins et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A mechanical analysis of woodpecker drumming and its application to shock-absorbing systems

(2011) Sang-Hee Yoon et al.   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

A NOVEL COMPARATIVE METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SHIFTS IN THE RATE OF CHARACTER EVOLUTION ON TREES

(2011) Jonathan M. Eastman et al.   EVOLUTION

Acoustic interference and recognition space within a complex assemblage of dendrobatid frogs

(2011) A. Amezquita et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Magic traits in speciation: ‘magic’ but not rare?

(2011) Maria R. Servedio et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The evolutionary origins of ritualized acoustic signals in caterpillars

(2010) Jaclyn L. Scott et al.   Nature Communications

Character displacement of song and morphology in African tinkerbirds

(2009) A. N. G. Kirschel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sympatric Speciation in Birds Is Rare: Insights from Range Data and Simulations

(2008) Albert B. Phillimore et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Call divergence is correlated with geographic and genetic distance in greenish warblers (Phylloscopus trochiloides): a strong role for stochasticity in signal evolution?

(2008) D. E. IRWIN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Speciation through sensory drive in cichlid fish

(2008) Ole Seehausen et al.   NATURE