Review 5: Signal Function

Beecher, M. D., S. E. Campbell, and P. K. Stoddard. 1994. Correlation of Song Learning and Territory Establishment Strategies in the Song Sparrow. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 91:1450-1454.

Blumstein, D. T., and J. C. Daniel. 2004. Yellow-bellied marmots discriminate between the alarm calls of individuals and are more responsive to calls from juveniles. Animal Behaviour 68:1257-1265.

Breithaupt, T., and P. Eger. 2002. Urine makes the difference: chemical communication in fighting crayfish made visible. Journal of Experimental Biology 205:1221-1231.

Breuker, C. J., and P. M. Brakefield. 2002. Female choice depends on size but not symmetry of dorsal eyespots in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 269:1233-1239.

Candolin, U. 2000. Increased signalling effort when survival prospects decrease: male-male competition ensures honesty. Animal Behaviour 60:417-422.

Chapuisat, M., C. Bernasconi, S. Hoehn, and M. Reuter. 2005. Nestmate recognition in the unicolonial ant Formica paralugubris. Behavioral Ecology 16:15-19.

Dabelsteen, T., P. K. McGregor, J. Holland, J. A. Tobias, and S. B. Pedersen. 1997. The signal function of overlapping singing in male robins. Animal Behaviour 53:249-256.

Doucet, S. M., D. J. Mennill, R. Montgomerie, P. T. Boag, and L. M. Ratcliffe. 2005. Achromatic plumage reflectance predicts reproductive success in male black-capped chickadees. Behavioral Ecology 16:218-222.

Doucet, S. M., and R. Montgomerie. 2003. Multiple sexual ornaments in satin bowerbirds: ultraviolet plumage and bowers signal different aspects of male quality. Behavioral Ecology 14:503-509.

Evans, C. S., and L. Evans. 1999. Chicken food calls are functionally referential. Animal Behaviour 58:307-319.

Grammer, K., L. Renninger, and B. Fischer. 2004. Disco clothing, female sexual motivation, and relationship status: Is she dressed to impress? Journal of Sex Research 41:66-74.

Hare, J. F., and B. A. Atkins. 2001. The squirrel that cried wolf: reliability detection by juvenile Richardson's ground squirrels (Spermophilus richardsonii). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 51:108-112.

Hebets, E. A. 2005. Attention-altering signal interactions in the multimodal courtship display of the wolf spider Schizocosa uetzi. Behavioral Ecology 16:75-82.

Hebets, E. A., and G. W. Uetz. 1999. Female responses to isolated signals from multimodal male courtship displays in the wolf spider genus Schizocosa (Araneae : Lycosidae). Animal Behaviour 57:865-872.

Hughes, M. 1996. The function of concurrent signals: Visual and chemical communication in snapping shrimp. Animal Behaviour 52:247-257.

Keeley, A. T. H., and B. W. Keeley. 2004. The mating system of Tadarida brasiliensis (Chiroptera : Molossidae) in a large highway bridge colony. Journal of Mammalogy 85:113-119.

Kipper, S., and D. Todt. 2002. The use of vocal signals in the social play of Barbary macaques. Primates 43:3-17.

Laidre, M. E., and J. L. Yorzinski. 2005. The silent bared-teeth face and the crest-raise of the mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx): A contextual analysis of signal function. Ethology 111:143-157.

Mallon, E. B., and P. Schmid-Hempel. 2004. Behavioural interactions, kin and disease susceptibility in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17:829-833.

Malo, A. F., E. R. S. Roldan, J. Garde, A. J. Soler, and M. Gomendio. 2005. Antlers honestly advertise sperm production and quality. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 272:149-157.

McMann, S. 2000. Effects of residence time on displays during territory establishment in a lizard. Animal Behaviour 59:513-522.

Morrow, E. H., and G. Arnqvist. 2003. Costly traumatic insemination and a female counter-adaptation in bed bugs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 270:2377-2381.

Neff, B. D. 2003. Decisions about parental care in response to perceived paternity. Nature 422:716-719.

Olendorf, R., T. Getty, K. Scribner, and S. K. Robinson. 2004. Male red-winged blackbirds distrust unreliable and sexually attractive neighbours. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 271:1033-1038.

Patricelli, G. L., J. A. C. Uy, and G. Borgia. 2004. Female signals enhance the efficiency of mate assessment in satin bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus). Behavioral Ecology 15:297-304.

Rosenthal, G. G., A. S. Rand, and M. J. Ryan. 2004. The vocal sac as a visual cue in anuran communication: an experimental analysis using video playback. Animal Behaviour 68:55-58.

Ryder, J. J., and M. T. Siva-Jothy. 2000. Male calling song provides a reliable signal of immune function in a cricket. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 267:1171-1175.