ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2014
Physiological control of elaborate male courtship: female choice for neuromuscular systems.
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- Choice of props for courtship dancing in estrildid finches.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Receiver response to high-intensity courtship differs with courter status in spotted bowerbirdsRoyal Society open science · 2024Article
- Fruit resources shape sexual selection processes in a lek mating system.Biology letters · 2024Article
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- Draft genome assemblies of four manakins.Scientific data · 2022Article
- Mapping the vocal circuitry of Alston's singing mouse with pseudorabies virus.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2022Article
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- Dancing drives evolution of sexual size dimorphism in manakins.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Video Recording and Analysis of Avian Movements and Behavior: Insights from Courtship Case Studies.Integrative and comparative biology · 2021Review
- Sex Steroids as Regulators of Gestural Communication.Endocrinology · 2020Review
- Evolution of the androgen-induced male phenotype.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2018Review
- Genetic editing of the androgen receptor contributes to impaired male courtship behavior in zebrafish.The Journal of experimental biology · 2017Article
- Mating success follows duet dancing in the Java sparrow.PloS one · 2017Article
- Select forelimb muscles have evolved superfast contractile speed to support acrobatic social displays.eLife · 2016Article
- Research Resource: Hormones, Genes, and Athleticism: Effect of Androgens on the Avian Muscular Transcriptome.Molecular endocrinology (Baltimore, Md.) · 2016Article
- Expression of 5α- and 5β-reductase in spinal cord and muscle of birds with different courtship repertoires.Frontiers in zoology · 2016Article
- What is orgasm? A model of sexual trance and climax via rhythmic entrainment.Socioaffective neuroscience & psychology · 2016Article
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Abstract
Males of many animal species perform specialized courtship behaviours to gain copulations with females. Identifying physiological and anatomical specializations underlying performance of these behaviours helps clarify mechanisms through which sexual selection promotes the evolution of elaborate courtship. Our knowledge about neuromuscular specializations that support elaborate displays is limited to a few model species. In this review, we focus on the physiological control of the courtship of a tropical bird, the golden-collared manakin, which has been the focus of our research for nearly 20 years. Male manakins perform physically elaborate courtship displays that are quick, accurate and powerful. Females seem to choose males based on their motor skills suggesting that neuromuscular specializations possessed by these males are driven by female choice. Male courtship is activated by androgens and androgen receptors are expressed in qualitatively and quantitatively unconventional ways in manakin brain, spinal cord and skeletal muscles. We propose that in some species, females select males based on their neuromuscular capabilities and acquired skills and that elaborate steroid-dependent courtship displays evolve to signal these traits.
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