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The songs of male pied flycatchers: exploring the legacy of the fathers.
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- Genetic Composition Is Unrelated to Song Content in a Wild Passerine.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Close Males Sing With Dissimilar Minimum Frequency and Repertoire Size in a Wild Passerine.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Like Father Like Son: Cultural and Genetic Contributions to Song Inheritance in an Estrildid Finch.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Singing is a key element of songbirds' behavioral repertoire, particularly for males, which sing during the breeding season to defend resources against other males and to attract females. Different song traits may convey honest information about males' qualities or conditions, which may be used by females to select their mates. Traits under strong sexual selection have an important component of additive genetic variation (i.e., the main genetic inheritance from parents), and so relatively high heritability; therefore, it can be expected that song traits also do. Although the act of singing is an innate behavior, and thus, genetically determined, songbirds need to learn their songs and therefore the genetic contribution to song traits may be reduced by the effect of environmental factors. We tested this hypothesis in seven song traits recorded in the long-distance migratory bird, the pied flycatcher (
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