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Science 21 July 1995:
Vol. 269. no. 5222, pp. 390 - 392
DOI: 10.1126/science.269.5222.390
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Female Responses to Ancestral Advertisement Calls in Túngara Frogs

Michael J. Ryan 1 and A. Stanley Rand 2

1 Department of Zoology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA, and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apdo. 2072, Balboa, Panama
2 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apdo. 2072, Balboa, Panama

Phylogenetic techniques were used to estimate and reconstruct advertisement calls at ancestral nodes. These calls were used to investigate the degree of preference of female túngara frogs (Physalaemus pustulosus) for both extant and ancestral calls. Females did not discriminate between calls of males of their own species and calls at their most recent ancestral node. They also recognized calls of three extant species and at four ancestral nodes as the signals of appropriate mates. Both shared ancestral history, and call convergence might differentially influence call preferences.

Submitted on December 15, 1994
Accepted on April 26, 1995


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