ArticleBehaviour2011
Evolution of advertisement calls in African clawed frogs.
Article in Behaviour, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 68 citations in OpenAlex.
- Convergent and divergent neural circuit architectures that support acoustic communication.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Pooled it
- Evidence that interval-counting neurons play a critical role in call recognition by Cope's gray treefrogs.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Article
- The 'silent' half: diversity, function and the critical knowledge gap on female frog vocalizations.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Review
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- Neural basis of acoustic species recognition in a cryptic species complex.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Phylogenetic signal in the vocalizations of vocal learning and vocal non-learning birds.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Allometric escape from acoustic constraints is rare for frog calls.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Generation, Coordination, and Evolution of Neural Circuits for Vocal Communication.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Review
- The return to water in ancestraleLife · 2019Article
- Premotor Neuron Divergence Reflects Vocal Evolution.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018Article
- Insight into the neuroendocrine basis of signal evolution: a case study in foot-flagging frogs.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2018Review
- Evolution of vocal patterns: tuning hindbrain circuits during species divergence.The Journal of experimental biology · 2017Article
- Probing forebrain to hindbrain circuit functions in Xenopus.Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000) · 2017Review
- Rhythm generation, coordination, and initiation in the vocal pathways of male African clawed frogs.Journal of neurophysiology · 2017Article
- Evolution of electric communication signals in the South American ghost knifefishes (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae): A phylogenetic comparative study using a sequence-based phylogeny.Journal of physiology, Paris · 2016Article
- Sex differences and endocrine regulation of auditory-evoked, neural responses in African clawed frogs (Xenopus).Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2016Article
- Advertisement call and genetic structure conservatism: good news for an endangered Neotropical frog.PeerJ · 2016Article
- Species-specific loss of sexual dimorphism in vocal effectors accompanies vocal simplification in African clawed frogs (Xenopus).The Journal of experimental biology · 2015Article
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- ZENK activation in the nidopallium of black-capped chickadees in response to both conspecific and heterospecific calls.PloS one · 2014Article
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Abstract
For most frogs, advertisement calls are essential for reproductive success, conveying information on species identity, male quality, sexual state and location. While the evolutionary divergence of call characters has been examined in a number of species, the relative impacts of genetic drift or natural and sexual selection remain unclear. Insights into the evolutionary trajectory of vocal signals can be gained by examining how advertisement calls vary in a phylogenetic context. Evolution by genetic drift would be supported if more closely related species express more similar songs. Conversely, a poor correlation between evolutionary history and song expression would suggest evolution shaped by natural or sexual selection. Here, we measure seven song characters in 20 described and two undescribed species of African clawed frogs (genera
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