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Advances in the Study of Behavior

  • 1st Edition, Volume 55 - April 21, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Jeffrey Podos, Susan Healy
  • Language: English

Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 55 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Playing to the crowd: using Drosop… Read more

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Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 55 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Playing to the crowd: using Drosophila to dissect mechanisms underlying plastic male strategies in sperm competition games, Social breeding and its challenges: A case study on village weaverbirds, Inbreeding depression and social interactions, Sleeping beauties? Copulatory quiescence in arachnid females, and more.

Key features

  • Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors
  • Presents the latest release in Advances in the Study of Behavior
  • Updated release includes the latest information on behavior

Readership

Academic, government and industrial sectors

Table of contents

Preface

Jeffrey Podos and Susan Healy

1. Playing to the crowd: Using Drosophila to dissect mechanisms underlying plastic male strategies in sperm competition games

Amanda Bretman, Tracey Chapman, James Rouse and Stuart Wigby

2. A behavioral ecology perspective on inbreeding and inbreeding depression

Jon Richardson and Per T. Smiseth

3. Waking beauties: Mating quiescence in arachnid females

Franco Cargnelutti, Fedra Bollatti, Matías A. Izquierdo, Débora Abregú, Mariela Oviedo-Diego, David Vrech, Paola Olivero, Lucía Calbacho-Rosa, Catalina Simian, Rocío Palen-Pietri, Camilo Mattoni and Alfredo V. Peretti

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 55
  • Published: April 25, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

JP

Jeffrey Podos

Jeff Podos is a Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. He conducted his dissertation research under the guidance of Stephen Nowicki and Susan Peters, in the Department of Zoology at Duke University (PhD 1996). He then held a post-doctoral fellowship at University of Arizona, Tucson, in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, where he studied with Daniel Papaj. He also held a post-doctoral position at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia in Manaus, Brazil. In 2000 he took a position in the Biology Department at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and since 2011 has served as director of the UMass Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. His research program focuses on topics in animal communication, with particular emphasis on signal performance, development, and learning in songbirds. In addition to work on North American sparrows, he has a long-standing research project on Darwin’s finches of the Galapagos Islands, addressing the interface of behavior, ecology, in species divergence. Additional collaborative research projects are addressing topics in Neotropical ornithology and bioacoustics. He has served editorship positions with three other journals: Animal Behaviour, Bird Behavior, and Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, and is currently President-Elect of the Animal Behavior Society.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA

SH

Susan Healy

Susan Healy have several avenues of research currently underway all stemming from an interest in adaptation and cognition. She investigate cognitive ablities in non-model organisms such as hummingbirds, zebra finches and bowerbirds and she is especially interested in 'animal cognition in the wild' and test cognitive abilities of animals (nearly always birds) in as natural conditions as possible. She currently have two major projects: 1) cognitive abilities of rufous hummingbirds (in collaboration with Andy Hurly, U. of Lethbridge, Canada) and 2) the cognitive basis of nest building in birds (in collaboration with Simone Meddle, U. of Edinburgh, UK). She is also interested in explanations for variation in brain size (in collaboration with Candy Rowe, U. of Newcastle, UK)
Affiliations and expertise
School of Biology, Harold Mitchell Building, University of St Andrews, UK

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