Search Results - "Girard, Madeline B"
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Multi-modal courtship in the peacock spider, Maratus volans (O.P.-Cambridge, 1874)
Published in PloS one (27-09-2011)“…The peacock spider, Maratus volans, has one of the most elaborate courtship displays in arthropods. Using regular and high-speed video segments captured in the…”
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Differentiating Biological Colours with Few and Many Sensors: Spectral Reconstruction with RGB and Hyperspectral Cameras
Published in PloS one (12-05-2015)“…The ability to discriminate between two similar or progressively dissimilar colours is important for many animals as it allows for accurately interpreting…”
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Female preference for multi-modal courtship: multiple signals are important for male mating success in peacock spiders
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (07-12-2015)“…A long-standing goal for biologists has been to understand how female preferences operate in systems where males have evolved numerous sexually selected…”
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Peacock spiders
Published in Current biology (07-07-2014)“…In this quick guide, Madeline Girard and John Endler summarise what we know about peacock spiders, small jumping spiders the males of which make a colourful…”
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The role of red coloration and song in peacock spider courtship: insights into complex signaling systems
Published in Behavioral ecology (27-11-2018)“…Peacock-spider males court females using multicolored fans, dances, and songs. We investigated how their showy red fan colors interacted with vibratory songs…”
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Orchestrating the score: complex multimodal courtship in the Habronattus coecatus group of Habronattus jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)
Published in Biological journal of the Linnean Society (01-03-2012)“…Jumping spiders in the genus Habronattus use complex multimodal signals during courtship displays. In the present study, we describe multimodal displays from…”
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Phylogenomics of peacock spiders and their kin (Salticidae: Maratus), with implications for the evolution of male courtship displays
Published in Biological journal of the Linnean Society (01-03-2021)“…Abstract Understanding diversity has been a pursuit in evolutionary biology since its inception. A challenge arises when sexual selection has played a role in…”
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Structural resonance and mode of flutter of hummingbird tail feathers
Published in Journal of experimental biology (15-09-2013)“…Feathers can produce sound by fluttering in airflow. This flutter is hypothesized to be aeroelastic, arising from the coupling of aerodynamic forces to one or…”
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Female preference for multi-modal courtship: multiple signals are important for male mating success in peacock spiders
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (07-12-2015)“…A long-standing goal for biologists has been to understand how female preferences operate in systems where males have evolved numerous sexually selected…”
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