Though it has long been known that animal communication is complex, recent years have
seen growing interest in understanding the extent to which animals give multicomponent …

Australian lizards are a diverse group distributed across the continent and inhabiting a wide
range of environments. Together, they exhibit a remarkable diversity of reproductive …

Only a handful of primate species exhibit the social relationship of pair‐bonding. Efficient
communication is critical for behavioral coordination within pair‐bonds to maintain proximity …

Ornaments used in courtship often vary wildly among species, reflecting the evolutionary
interplay between mate preference functions and the constraints imposed by natural …

Background Resolving the short phylogenetic branches that result from rapid evolutionary
diversification often requires large numbers of loci. We collected targeted sequence capture …

Many lizard and amphisbaenian lineages possess follicular glands in the dermis of the inner
thighs and/or the area anterior to the cloaca. These tubular glands produce a holocrine …

Animal signals evolve by striking a balance between the need to convey information through
particular habitats and the limitations of what types of signals can most easily be produced …

The evolution of sociality and traits that correlate with, or predict, sociality, have been the
focus of considerable recent study. In order to reduce the social conflict that ultimately comes …

Animals rely on multimodal signals to obtain information from conspecifics through
alternative sensory systems, and the evolutionary loss of a signal in one modality may lead …

Most animal signals across sensory modalities are multicomponent traits that can be broken
down into discrete elements. If different elements are perceived as unique, independent …