They must be scientifically astute, be able to deal with rigorous conditions and effectively lead a diverse field crew. Ability to carry out these functions and get along well with others in the lab is important in assessing new students. I encourage students with high GREs and grades to apply because they are eligible for fellowships that provide support while they are in the field.
Interested students should contact me directly by email and provide grades, GRE scores, information about relevant experience and references. Gaining familiarity with our work by reading papers is strongly encouraged see key downloadable papers below.
Contact Michelle Brooks at mmbrooks umd. Downloadable Videos Building a bower Alexander, R. Natural selection, altruism, and the levels of organization of life.
Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 9: Sexual selection and the evolution of mating systems. Academic Press. On the origin and maintenance of the male-female phenomenon.
Levels of selection and human ethology. Commentary Behavioral and Brain Sciences , 2: Evolution of haplodiploidy: Models for inbred and outbred systems. Theoretical Population Biology Sexual competition in Scatophaga stercoraria : size- and density-related changes in male ability to capture females.
Behaviour Human aggression as a biological adaptation. Elsevier, North Holland. Borgia, G. Review of Contrasts in Behavior. Mate selection in Scatophaga stercoraria : female choice in a male-controlled system. Animal Behaviour Sexual competition and the evolution of simultaneous hermaphroditism.
Journal of Theoretical Biology Experimental changes in resource structure and male density: size-related differences in mating success among male Scatophaga stercoraria. Evolution Female-biased sex ratios. Nature Experimental study of male choice in the satin bowerbird. American Philosophical Society Yearbook pp. Beyond sociobiology revisited.
American Scientist. Reproductive behavior. Science Insect sex. Bioscience Bowers as markers of male quality. Test of a hypothesis. Animal Behaviour [pdf] Borgia, G. Confidence of paternity and the avunculate. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 8: Zietschrift fur Tierpsychologie [pdf] Borgia, G. Bower destruction and sexual competition in the satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
Behaviorial Ecology and Sociobiology Male courtship vocalizations as cues for mate choice in the satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus Auk Satin bowerbird parasites: a test of the bright male hypothesis.
Sexual competition by feather stealing in the satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus. Sexual selection, mating systems, and the evolution of avian acoustical displays. American Naturalist Sexual selection in bowerbirds. Scientific American 92 Flower choice and the decoration of the bower of the satin bowerbird Ptilonorhyunchus violaceus : A test of hypotheses for the evolution of display. A critical review of sexual selection models. Dahlem Conference Symposium Volume.
Wiley: New York. Maynard, O'Donald, P. Group report on models of sexual selection. Female choice for parasite-free male satin bowerbirds and the evolution of bright male plumage.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Typology and human mating preferences. Parasites and bright male plumage in the satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
American Zoologist Sexual selection in Bowerbirds. In: Behavior and Evolution of Birds. Mock, ed. New York: W. Freeman Reprinting of Scientific American article. Hormonal correlates of bower decoration and sexual display in the satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
Bower destruction, decoration stealing, and female choice in the spotted bowerbird Chlamydera maculata. Emu The age-related effects of testosterone, plumage, and experience on aggression and social dominance in juvenile male satin bowerbirds Ptilonorhynchus violaceus. The Auk. Swallowing ornamental asymmetry. The cost of display in the non-resource based mating system of the satin bowerbird. American Naturalist. Delayed plumage maturation, facilitated learning, and the cost of display in the satin bowerbird: An experimental study.
Molecular information on bowerbird phylogeny and the evolution of exaggerated male characteristics. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. The Scandals of San Marco. Why do bowerbirds build bowers? Treat reduction as a cause for large differences in bower architecture, in two closely related bowerbird species Chlamydera nuchalis and C. Complex male display and female choice in the spotted bowerbird: Specialized functions for different bower decorations. Borgia, D.
Ibis Comparative behavioral and biochemical studies in bowerbirds and the evolution of bower building. In Biodiversity II. Reaka, D. Wilson, and E. Wilson, Smithsonian Institution, Chapter 18 pp. Washington, D. Satin bowerbird displays are not extremely costly. Animal Behavior Sexual warfare.
Borgia, A. Uy, and R. Molecular information on bowerbird phylogeny and the evolution of exaggerated male characters. Ch In: Exploring Animal Behavior.
Edited by Paul Sherman and J. Alcock, Sinauer Associates, Inc. Presgraves, Coevolution of elaborated male display traits in the spotted bowerbird: An experimental test of the threat reduction hypothesis. Animal Behavior , Dynamic mate searching tactic allows female satin bowerbirds to reduce searching.
Sexual selection drives rapid divergence in bowerbird display traits. Patricelli and G. L, Borgia G. Sexual selection: Bowerbirds. Encyclopedia of Evolution. Pagel Ed. Patricelli G. Variable female preferences drive complex male displays.
Egeth, J. Uy, G. Reproductive behavior: Bowerbirds and sexual displays. Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. Greenwood Press, London. Evolution by sexual selection.
The Bowerbirds: Ptilonorhynchidae. Male satin bowerbirds, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, adjust their display intensity in response to female startling: an experiment with robotic females Anim. Behaviour [pdf]. An inverse relationship between decoration and food colour preferences in satin bowerbirds does not support the sensory drive hypothesis, Animal Behaviour, 72 : Advances in the study of Behaviour Reynolds, S.
Behavioral paternity predicts genetic paternity in satin bowerbirds Ptilonorhynchus violaceus , a species with a non-resource-based mating system. Coyle, B. The Evolution of Colorful Display. Evolution 61 3 : [pdf]. Female preferences drive the evolution of mimetic accuracy in male sexual displays. Plumage based classification of the Bowerbird genus Sericulus evaluated using a multi-gene, multi-genome analysis.
J Theor Biol — Diamond J Evolution of bowerbird bowers: animal origins of an asthetic sense. Fisher RA The genetical theory of natural selection. Clarendon Press, Oxford. Gilliard ET Bower ornamentation versus plumage characters in Bowerbirds. Gilliard ET Birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Weindenfeld and Nicholson, London. Gould J The birds of Australia.
J Murray, London. Halliday T The study of mate choice. Science — Hogan-Warberg A Social behavior of the ruff, Philomachus pugnax. Ardea — Howard RD Estimating reproductive success in natural populations.
Am Nat — Kirkpatrick M Sexual selection and the evolution of mate choice. Lande R Models of speciation by sexual selection on polygenic traits. Wilson Bull — Marshall AJ Bower-birds: Their displays and breeding cycles. Meyers P Leks, sex, and buff-breasted sandpipers. Am Birds — Parker GA Mate quality and mating decisions. Press, Cambridge, pp — Peckover WS The fawn-breasted bowerbird Chalmydera cerviniventris. Behav Ecol Sociobiol — Soderberg R Genesis of decorative and building instincts of bower birds Fam.
With some notes touching on the problem of the origin of art. Proc Int Ornithol Congr Copenhagen — Sokal R, Rholf F Biometry.
Freeman, San Francisco. Thornhill R Competitive, charming males and choosy females: Was Darwin correct? Florida Entomol — Trivers RL Parental investment and sexual selection. In: Campbell BG ed Sexual selection and the descent of man. Adline Press, Chicago, pp — Vellenga R Behavior of the male satin bower-bird at the bower. Austr Bird Bander — Wiley R Territorality and non-random mating in sage grouse, Centrocercus urophasiantus. Zahavi A Mate selection — a selection for a handicap.
Download references. You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar. Reprints and Permissions. Borgia, G. Bower destruction and sexual competition in the satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 18, 91— Download citation. Received : 13 December Accepted : 08 July
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