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Forstmeier, Wolfgang. "Quantitative genetics and behavioural correlates of digit ratio in the zebra finch." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272, no. 1581 (2005): 2641–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3264.

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A recent study on a captive zebra finch population suggested that variation in digit ratio (i.e. the relative length of the second to the fourth toe) might be an indicator of the action of sex steroids during embryo development, as is widely assumed for human digits. Zebra finch digit ratio was found to vary with offspring sex, laying order of eggs within a clutch, and to predict aspects of female mating behaviour. Hence, it was proposed that the measurement of digit ratio would give insights into how an individual's behaviour is shaped by its maternal environment. Studying 500 individuals of

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Pogány, Ákos, Zita Szurovecz, Ernő Vincze, Zoltán Barta, and Tamás Székely. "Mate preference does not influence reproductive motivation and parental cooperation in female zebra finches." Behaviour 151, no. 12-13 (2014): 1885–901. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568539x-00003221.

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In socially monogamous species, low availability of sexually active unpaired individuals in the local population may constrain mate choice, resulting in mating with sub-optimal partners. Here we experimentally investigate whether female reproductive behaviour is different when paired with a preferred or a non-preferred male in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). First, we assessed female mating preferences using a four-way choice apparatus, then females were caged together with either their preferred or least-preferred male. Female reproductive motivation, assessed by the propensity of layi

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Clayton, N. S. "The effects of cross-fostering on assortative mating between zebra finch subspecies." Animal Behaviour 40, no. 6 (1990): 1102–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0003-3472(05)80176-9.

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Templeton, Jennifer J., D. James Mountjoy, Sarah R. Pryke, and Simon C. Griffith. "In the eye of the beholder: visual mate choice lateralization in a polymorphic songbird." Biology Letters 8, no. 6 (2012): 924–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0830.

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Birds choose mates on the basis of colour, song and body size, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying these mating decisions. Reports that zebra finches prefer to view mates with the right eye during courtship, and that immediate early gene expression associated with courtship behaviour is lateralized in their left hemisphere suggest that visual mate choice itself may be lateralized. To test this hypothesis, we used the Gouldian finch, a polymorphic species in which individuals exhibit strong, adaptive visual preferences for mates of their own head colour. Black males were tested

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Tschirren, Barbara, Erik Postma, Alison N. Rutstein, and Simon C. Griffith. "When mothers make sons sexy: maternal effects contribute to the increased sexual attractiveness of extra-pair offspring." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279, no. 1731 (2011): 1233–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1543.

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Quality differences between offspring sired by the social and by an extra-pair partner are usually assumed to have a genetic basis, reflecting genetic benefits of female extra-pair mate choice. In the zebra finch ( Taeniopygia guttata ), we identified a colour ornament that is under sexual selection and appears to have a heritable basis. Hence, by engaging in extra-pair copulations with highly ornamented males, females could, in theory, obtain genes for increased offspring attractiveness. Indeed, sons sired by extra-pair partners had larger ornaments, seemingly supporting the genetic benefit h

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Lansverk, Allison L., Katie M. Schroeder, Sarah E. London, Simon C. Griffith, David F. Clayton, and Christopher N. Balakrishnan. "The variability of song variability in zebra finch ( Taeniopygia guttata ) populations." Royal Society Open Science 6, no. 5 (2019): 190273. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190273.

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Birdsong is a classic example of a learned social behaviour. Song behaviour is also influenced by genetic factors, and understanding the relative contributions of genetic and environmental influences remains a major goal. In this study, we take advantage of captive zebra finch populations to examine variation in a population-level song trait: song variability. Song variability is of particular interest in the context of individual recognition and in terms of the neuro-developmental mechanisms that generate song novelty. We find that the Australian zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata castanotis ( T

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Gorman, Helen E., and Ruedi G. Nager. "State-dependent incubation behaviour in the zebra finch." Animal Behaviour 65, no. 4 (2003): 745–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/anbe.2003.2120.

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Balakrishnan, Christopher N., Charles Chapus, Michael S. Brewer, and David F. Clayton. "Brain transcriptome of the violet-eared waxbill Uraeginthus granatina and recent evolution in the songbird genome." Open Biology 3, no. 9 (2013): 130063. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsob.130063.

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Songbirds are important models for the study of social behaviour and communication. To complement the recent genome sequencing of the domesticated zebra finch, we sequenced the brain transcriptome of a closely related songbird species, the violet-eared waxbill ( Uraeginthus granatina ) . Both the zebra finch and violet-eared waxbill are members of the family Estrildidae, but differ markedly in their social behaviour. Using Roche 454 RNA sequencing, we generated an assembly and annotation of 11 084 waxbill orthologues of 17 475 zebra finch genes (64%), with an average transcript length of 1555

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Lemon, William C. "Fitness consequences of foraging behaviour in the zebra finch." Nature 352, no. 6331 (1991): 153–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/352153a0.

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Clay-Ton, N. S. "Song Tutor Choice in Zebra Finches and Bengalese Finches: the Relative Importance of Visual and Vocal Cues." Behaviour 104, no. 3-4 (1988): 281–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853988x00557.

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AbstractThis paper examined the relative importance of visual and vocal cues for song tutor choice. In the first study zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata, and Bengalese finches, Lonchura striata, were housed with two song tutors at independence, a zebra finch singing Bengalese finch song and a Bengalese finch singing zebra finch song. All the males tended to learn from the conspecific song tutor, irrespective of whether they had been raised by a pair of conspecifics, the female alone or cross-fostered to a pair of the other species. In the second study zebra finches were housed at independence

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DeLeon, Sara, Michael S. Webster, Timothy J. DeVoogd, and André A. Dhondt. "Developmental polychlorinated biphenyl exposure influences adult zebra finch reproductive behaviour." PLOS ONE 15, no. 3 (2020): e0230283. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230283.

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Rogers, Lesley, Adam Koboroff, and Gisela Kaplan. "Lateral Asymmetry of Brain and Behaviour in the Zebra Finch, Taeniopygia guttata." Symmetry 10, no. 12 (2018): 679. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sym10120679.

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Lateralisation of eye use indicates differential specialisation of the brain hemispheres. We tested eye use by zebra finches to view a model predator, a monitor lizard, and compared this to eye use to view a non-threatening visual stimulus, a jar. We used a modified method of scoring eye preference of zebra finches, since they often alternate fixation of a stimulus with the lateral, monocular visual field of one eye and then the other, known as biocular alternating fixation. We found a significant and consistent preference to view the lizard using the left lateral visual field, and no signific

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Cate, Carel Ten. "Behaviour-contingent exposure to taped song and zebra finch song learning." Animal Behaviour 42, no. 5 (1991): 857–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0003-3472(05)80131-9.

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Woodgate, Joseph L., Andrew T. D. Bennett, Stefan Leitner, Clive K. Catchpole, and Katherine L. Buchanan. "Developmental stress and female mate choice behaviour in the zebra finch." Animal Behaviour 79, no. 6 (2010): 1381–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.03.018.

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Krause, E. Tobias, Mariam Honarmand, and Marc Naguib. "Zebra finch nestlings beg more under better nutritional conditions." Behaviour 148, no. 11-13 (2011): 1239–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/000579511x600619.

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Abstract Providing parental care involves costs for the parents when investing resources such as food and time to raise their offspring. In many species, offspring communicate their need by begging signals which often are linked to their physiological condition but also may be affected by the expectation they may develop depending on previous parental behaviour. To test whether or not offspring begging is affected by the food quality to which parents have access, we experimentally manipulated the early nutritional conditions of zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) nestlings by providing the paren

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Gilbert, L., K. A. Williamson, N. Hazon, and J. A. Graves. "Maternal effects due to male attractiveness affect offspring development in the zebra finch." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 273, no. 1595 (2006): 1765–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.3520.

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Maternal effects occur when offspring phenotype is influenced by environmental factors experienced by the mother. Mothers are predicted to invest differentially in offspring in ways that will maximize offspring fitness depending on the environment she expects them to encounter. Here, we test for maternal effects in response to mate attractiveness on offspring developmental traits in the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata . We controlled for parental genetic quality by manipulating male attractiveness using coloured leg rings and by randomly assigning mating pairs. The potential confounding effect

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McCowan, Luke S. C., and Simon C. Griffith. "Active but asocial: exploration and activity is linked to social behaviour in a colonially breeding finch." Behaviour 152, no. 9 (2015): 1145–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568539x-00003272.

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One largely neglected area of personality research is an individual’s propensity to move and feed alongside others. We monitored the foraging behaviour of captive zebra finches in social groups in large enclosures using a PIT-tag system, and also separately assayed activity levels in a home cage with a social partner. We found that more active individuals found novel feeders more quickly (explored faster). Furthermore, we found that more active males fed less socially than inactive males. Our findings suggest that variation in foraging behaviour in the zebra finch is driven by both personality

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DALL, SASHA R. X., and MARK S. WITTER. "Feeding interruptions, diurnal mass changes and daily routines of behaviour in the zebra finch." Animal Behaviour 55, no. 3 (1998): 715–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/anbe.1997.0749.

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Houx, Bart, and Carel Ten Cate. "Do Contingencies with Tutor Behaviour Influence Song Learning in Zebra Finches?" Behaviour 135, no. 5 (1998): 599–614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853998792897932.

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AbstractSocial interaction with a song tutor is often found to be important for the song learning process in songbirds, but the mechanism is still unclear. The main aim of this study is to find indications for contingencies between singing and interactive behaviours, between and within tutors and tutees, which might influence the song learning process of zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). To this end we observed the interactions of eleven juvenile zebra finch males with their fathers (the tutors) and their mothers during the sensitive phase for song learning, and examined four different type

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Gilby, Amanda J., Mark C. Mainwaring, and Simon C. Griffith. "Incubation behaviour and hatching synchrony differ in wild and captive populations of the zebra finch." Animal Behaviour 85, no. 6 (2013): 1329–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.03.023.

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Jones, A. E., and P. J. B. Slater. "The Role of Aggression in Song Tutor Choice in the Zebra Finch: Cause or Effect?" Behaviour 133, no. 1-2 (1996): 103–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853996x00053.

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AbstractYoung male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) normally copy their song from one tutor when given a choice of two. Interaction is known to be a key feature of the learning process and this study examines the way in which one particular type of social behaviour, aggression, may affect tutor choice. Female raised zebra finches were given a choice of two song tutors, which had been pre-selected for differing levels of aggression, during the sensitive phase for song learning. A young bird was significantly more likely to learn from the tutor that was more aggressive to him, as found earlie

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Ratcliffe, Laurene M., and Peter T. Boag. "Effects of colour bands on male competition and sexual attractiveness in zebra finches (Poephila guttata)." Canadian Journal of Zoology 65, no. 2 (1987): 333–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z87-052.

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Recent work suggests that coloured plastic leg bands may alter the sexual attractiveness and reproductive success of zebra finches (Poephila guttata). For example, males wearing red bands are more attractive to females and have enhanced reproductive success compared with males that have light green bands. Colour bands have been widely used in studies of avian behaviour and therefore could introduce bias if they regularly have a significant impact on social interactions among individuals. We carried out an experiment to assess the proximate effects of colour bands on zebra finch behaviour. Male

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Feuth, Enja, Bart Houx, and Carel Ten Cate. "VARIATIONS IN ZEBRA FINCH SONG COPYING: AN EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP WITH TUTOR SONG QUALITY AND PUPIL BEHAVIOUR." Behaviour 137, no. 10 (2000): 1377–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853900501980.

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Forstmeier, Wolfgang, Jakob C. Mueller, and Bart Kempenaers. "A polymorphism in the oestrogen receptor gene explains covariance between digit ratio and mating behaviour." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277, no. 1698 (2010): 3353–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1007.

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In vertebrates, including humans, the relative length of the second to the fourth digit correlates with sex hormone-dependent behavioural, psychological and physiological traits. However, despite a decade of research, the underlying mechanism linking digit ratio to these sex hormone-dependent traits remains unclear. Previous work suggests that during embryo development, circulating levels of plasma androgens or oestrogens may act through their receptors to affect transcription levels of posterior HOX genes in the developing digits, thereby possibly influencing their relative length. The correl

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Holveck, M. J., and K. Riebel. "Corrigendum to “Preferred songs predict preferred males: consistency and repeatability of zebra finch females across three test contexts” [Animal Behaviour, 74 (2007), 297–309]." Animal Behaviour 99 (January 2015): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.10.017.

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Mariette, Mylene M., Charlène Cathaud, Rémi Chambon, and Clémentine Vignal. "Juvenile social experience affects pairing success at adulthood: congruence with the loser effect?" Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280, no. 1767 (2013): 20131514. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.1514.

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Social interactions with adults are often critical for the development of mating behaviours. However, the potential role of other primary social partners such as juvenile counterparts is rarely considered. Most interestingly, it is not known whether interactions with juvenile females improve males’ courtship and whether, similar to the winner and loser effects in a fighting context—outcome of these interactions shapes males’ behaviour in future encounters. We investigated the combined effects of male quality and juvenile social experience on pairing success at adulthood in zebra finches ( Taen

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Klatt, James D., and James L. Goodson. "Oxytocin-like receptors mediate pair bonding in a socially monogamous songbird." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280, no. 1750 (2013): 20122396. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.2396.

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Although many species form socially monogamous pair bonds, relevant neural mechanisms have been described for only a single species, the prairie vole ( Microtus ochrogaster ). In this species, pair bonding is strongly dependent upon the nonapeptides oxytocin (OT) and vasopressin, in females and males, respectively. Because monogamy has evolved many times in multiple lineages, data from additional species are required to determine whether similar peptide mechanisms modulate bonding when monogamy evolves independently. Here we test the hypothesis that OT-like receptor activation is required for

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Griffith, Simon C., Mark C. Mainwaring, Enrico Sorato, and Christa Beckmann. "High atmospheric temperatures and ‘ambient incubation’ drive embryonic development and lead to earlier hatching in a passerine bird." Royal Society Open Science 3, no. 2 (2016): 150371. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150371.

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Tropical and subtropical species typically experience relatively high atmospheric temperatures during reproduction, and are subject to climate-related challenges that are largely unexplored, relative to more extensive work conducted in temperate regions. We studied the effects of high atmospheric and nest temperatures during reproduction in the zebra finch. We characterized the temperature within nests in a subtropical population of this species in relation to atmospheric temperature. Temperatures within nests frequently exceeded the level at which embryo’s develop optimally, even in the absen

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Neuhaus, P., and K. E. Ruckstuhl. "The link between sexual dimorphism, activity budgets, and group cohesion: the case of the plains zebra (Equus burchelli)." Canadian Journal of Zoology 80, no. 8 (2002): 1437–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z02-126.

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Animals that differ in reproductive status and body size have different needs in terms of foraging and resting. In most social ungulates this leads to sexual segregation, probably because of incompatibilities between the activity budgets of males and females. Since most studies on behavioural differences between the sexes have been done on sexually dimorphic species, we decided to look at a system in which males and females are similar in body size. We studied time budgets, synchrony of behaviour, and bite rates of plains zebras (Equus burchelli) to evaluate the factors that enable these extre

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"Assortative mating in zebra finch subspecies, Taeniopygia guttata guttata and T. g. castanotis." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 330, no. 1258 (1990): 351–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1990.0205.

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There are two subspecies of the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata guttata and Taeniopygia guttata castanotis. T. g. guttata is found on the Lesser Sunda islands in Indonesia and the males differ from their Australian counterparts, T. g. castanotis , in having a thinner breast-band and grey chin and throat instead of the black and white throat bars. The songs of male guttata are longer and sung at a higher frequency than those of male castanotis . In contrast to the substantial differences between the two subspecies, there is little geographic variation with subspecies. In a recent aviary study

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Martin, Lynn B., Meredith E. Kernbach, and Thomas R. Unnasch. "Distinct effects of acute versus chronic corticosterone exposure on Zebra finch responses to West Nile virus." Conservation Physiology 7, no. 1 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coz094.

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Summary statement Stress hormones affect immune responses, behaviour and other host traits that can influence how individual hosts contribute to disease cycles (i.e. competence). We found that differences in the duration of experimental elevations of one hormone, corticosterone, had very different effects on zebra finch responses to West Nile virus. Chronic elevations enabled birds to become infectious and more tolerant of WNV whereas birds experiencing acute elevations generally resembled untreated controls.

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Zachar, Gergely, Catherine Montagnese, Emese A. Fazekas, et al. "Brain Distribution and Sexually Dimorphic Expression of Amylin in Different Reproductive Stages of the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata) Suggest Roles of the Neuropeptide in Song Learning and Social Behaviour." Frontiers in Neuroscience 13 (January 13, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.01401.

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