The aim of this review is to consider variation in mating preferences among females. We
define mating preferences as the sensory and behavioural properties that influence the …

Publisher Summary Environmental noise can affect acoustic communication through limiting
the broadcast area, or active space, of a signal by decreasing signal-to-noise ratios at the …

Vocalizations of anuran amphibians have received much attention in studies of behavioral
ecology and physiology, but also provide informative characters for identifying and …

An increasing number of studies find females to base their mate choice on several cues.
Why this occurs is debated and many different hypotheses have been proposed. Here I …

Patterns of variation in the acoustic properties of advertisement calls of several species of
treefrogs (family Hylidae) are related to patterns of female preferences for these same …

The most commonly heard vocalizations of frogs are advertisement calls, which attract
gravid females and mediate aggressive interactions between males. Frog vocalizations are …

Songs are complex acoustic signals produced mainly during the mating season. Such
signals are found in many taxa but are most typical of birds, frogs, and insects. Darwin (38) …

A review of the literature reveals that, if females prefer traits that deviate from the population
mean, they usually prefer traits of greater quantity. In cases in which the sensory bases of …

Repeatability, a concept derived from quantitative genetics theory, is a statistic that
describes the degree to which variation within individuals contributes to total variation in a …

SUMMARY (i) To find out whether a mating preference could have initially evolved for
adaptive reasons, one must determine whether the preferred trait could have provided …