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Testosterone induces plumage ornamentation followed by enhanced territoriality in a female songbird
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- Boersma, Jordan (author)
- Washington State Univ, Sch Biol Sci, Heald Hall 315,POB 644236, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
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- Enbody, Erik D. (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi,Tulane Univ, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, 6823 St Charles Ave, Lindy Boggs Bldg, Room 400, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA
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- Jones, John Anthony (author)
- Tulane Univ, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, 6823 St Charles Ave, Lindy Boggs Bldg, Room 400, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA
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- Nason, Doka (author)
- Tulane Univ, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, 6823 St Charles Ave, Lindy Boggs Bldg, Room 400, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA
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- Lopez-Contreras, Elisa (author)
- Washington State Univ, Sch Biol Sci, Heald Hall 315, POB 644236, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
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- Karubian, Jordan (author)
- Tulane Univ, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, 6823 St Charles Ave, Lindy Boggs Bldg, Room 400, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA
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- Schwabl, Hubert (author)
- Washington State Univ, Sch Biol Sci, Heald Hall 315, POB 644236, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
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- 2020-08-26
- 2020
- English.
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In: Behavioral Ecology. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1045-2249 .- 1465-7279. ; 31:5, s. 1233-1241
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- We know little of the proximate mechanisms underlying the expression of signaling traits in female vertebrates. Across males, the expression of sexual and competitive traits, including ornamentation and aggressive behavior, is often mediated by testosterone. In the white-shouldered fairywren (Malurus alboscapulatus) of New Guinea, females of different subspecies differ in the presence or absence of white shoulder patches and melanic plumage, whereas males are uniformly ornamented. Previous work has shown that ornamented females circulate more testosterone and exhibit more territorial aggression than do unornamented females. We investigated the degree to which testosterone regulates the expression of ornamental plumage and territorial behavior by implanting free-living unorna merited females with testosterone. Every testosterone-treated female produced a male-like cloacal protuberance, and 15 of 20 replaced experimentally plucked brown with white shoulder patch feathers but did not typically produce melanic plumage characteristic of ornamented females. Testosterone treatment did not elevate territorial behavior prior to the production of the plumage ornament or during the active life of the implant. However, females with experimentally induced ornamentation, but exhausted implants, increased the vocal components of territory defense relative to the pretreatment period and also to testosterone-implanted females that did not produce ornamentation. Our results suggest that testosterone induces partial acquisition of the ornamental female plumage phenotype and that ornament expression, rather than testosterone alone, results in elevations of some territorial behaviors.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Zoologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Zoology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- female ornamentation
- territorial behavior
- testosterone
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- art (subject category)
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