Researchers find genetic stability in a long-term Panamanian hybrid zone of manakins
We often think of species as separate and distinct, but sometimes they can interbreed and create hybrids. When this happens ...
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The development of coordinated singing in cooperatively displaying long-tailed manakins.
Trainer, J.M., D.B. McDonald, and W.A. Learn. 2002. Behavioral Ecology 13: 65-69. Abstract: Long-tailed manakins (Chiroxiphia linearis) have a puzzling social system in which teams of two males ...
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McDonald Lab
I have become fascinated with social network models -- for example, using a male's past social interactions to predict his eventual fate (five years later) in Long-tailed Manakins. Since 2013, my ...