{"id":283,"date":"2006-05-03T20:39:53","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T02:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/?p=283"},"modified":"2006-05-03T20:39:53","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T02:39:53","slug":"news-in-tungara-frogs-female-choice-for-complex-calls-led-to-evolution-of-unusual-male-vocal-cord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/05\/03\/news-in-tungara-frogs-female-choice-for-complex-calls-led-to-evolution-of-unusual-male-vocal-cord\/","title":{"rendered":"News: In t\u00c3\u00bangara frogs, female choice for complex calls led to evolution of unusual male vocal cord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on the Eurekalert page, there is this press release: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2006-05\/stri-itf050306.php\">In t\u00c3\u00bangara frogs, female choice for complex calls led to evolution of unusual male vocal cord<\/a>. The male frogs have fibrous masses on the vocal cords. Researchers surgically removed the masses in some males, who thereafter could not produce the &#8220;chuck&#8221; part of the typical mating call in this species of &#8220;whine chuck chuck&#8221;. The female frog preference for males able to make the more complex call provides a basis for selection leading to the trait of having fibrous masses on the vocal cords.<\/p>\n<p>This research complements Basolo&#8217;s earlier study finding that platyfish females in species without &#8220;swords&#8221; preferred males with artificial swords (Basolo, A.L. 1990. Female preference predates the evolution of the sword in swordtail fish. Science, 250:808-810.). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on the Eurekalert page, there is this press release: In t\u00c3\u00bangara frogs, female choice for complex calls led to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-science"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"colormag-highlighted-post":false,"colormag-featured-post-medium":false,"colormag-featured-post-small":false,"colormag-featured-image":false,"colormag-default-news":false,"colormag-featured-image-large":false},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Wesley R. Elsberry","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0397e612e6e0615428fba05fe25422d5920a74e203aa8a035183297dcb4ffe5e?s=96&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":false,"magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Over on the Eurekalert page, there is this press release: In t\u00c3\u00bangara frogs, female choice for complex calls led to","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["General","Science"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":16,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":1,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":false,"medium":false,"thumbnail":false},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Wesley R. Elsberry","author_link":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/author\/austringer\/"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0397e612e6e0615428fba05fe25422d5920a74e203aa8a035183297dcb4ffe5e?s=96&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">General<\/a> <a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-5\">Science<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}