Some recent publications
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Rajan S, et al. 2025. Geographical variation in parental calls contextually shapes nestling songbird responses. Animal Behaviour
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123114
Gallego-Abenza M, et al. 2025. Responses in adult pied flycatcher males depend on playback song similarity to local population. Behavioral Ecology 36, arae090
https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arae090
Wheatcroft D, et al. 2025. Divergence in expression of a singing-related neuroplasticity gene in the brains of 2 Ficedula flycatchers and their hybrids. G3 15, jkae293 https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkae293
Rajan S, et al. 2024. Translocated wild birds are predisposed to learn songs of their ancestral population. Current Biology 34, 2535-2540
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.061
Wheatcroft D, et al. 2022. Species-specific song responses emerge as a by-product of tuning to the local dialect. Current Biology 32, 5153-5158
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.063
Wheatcroft, D, Qvarnström, A. 2017. Genetic divergence of early song discrimination between two young songbird species. Nature Ecology and Evolution 1, 0192
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0192
Wheatcroft, D, Qvarnström, A. 2017. Reproductive character displacement of female, but not male song discrimination in an avian hybrid zone. Evolution 71, 1776–1786, https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13267
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