Songs of Darwin's finches diverge when a new species enters the community
Author(s): Grant, B. Rosemary; Grant, Peter R.
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Grant, B. Rosemary | - |
dc.contributor.author | Grant, Peter R. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-19T18:35:09Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-04-19T18:35:09Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2010-11-23 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Grant, B.R., Grant, P.R. (2010). Songs of Darwin's finches diverge when a new species enters the community. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107 (47), 20156 - 20163. doi:10.1073/pnas.1015115107 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0027-8424 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pr14d8z | - |
dc.description.abstract | Bird species sing different songs and as a result rarely breed with each other. Species are not static but can shift in acoustic and morphological space, yet maintain their distinctiveness. Investigating such a situation in a community of Darwin’s finches sheds light on the origin and maintenance of premating barriers between species. Explanations for songs divergence generally invoke morphological changes to the sound-producing apparatus, environmental changes influencing transmitting properties of song, avoidance of acoustical interference with other species, and random processes including copying errors. We investigated changes in songs of Geospiza fortis (medium ground finch) and Geospiza scandens (cactus ground finch) from 1978 to 2010 on Daphne Major Island, Galápagos. The habitat did not change significantly; however, the finch community changed. The socially aggressive congener Geospiza magnirostris (large ground finch), singing in the same frequency band (2–4 kHz), colonized Daphne in 1983 and increased in numbers. Temporal features of the songs of G. fortis and G. scandens, especially trill rate and song duration, diverged from G. magnirostris songs as it became increasingly common. Changes in song were not a passive consequence of a change in beak morphology. Instead they arose as a bias during song imprinting and production. Sons of both G. fortis and G. scandens sang faster songs than their respective fathers and thereby differed more from G. magnirostris in their songs than did their fathers. Divergence from an aversive or confusing stimulus during learning illustrates a “peak shift” that may be a common feature of song evolution and speciation. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 20156 - 20163 | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | en_US |
dc.rights | Final published version. Article is made available in OAR by the publisher's permission or policy. | en_US |
dc.title | Songs of Darwin's finches diverge when a new species enters the community | en_US |
dc.type | Journal Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | doi:10.1073/pnas.1015115107 | - |
dc.date.eissued | 2010-11-03 | en_US |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1091-6490 | - |
pu.type.symplectic | http://www.symplectic.co.uk/publications/atom-terms/1.0/journal-article | en_US |
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