The Patricelli Lab University of California, Davis

Publications

 

Uy, J. Albert C., Gail L. Patricelli & Gerald Borgia. 2000. Dynamic mate-searching tactic allows female satin bowerbirds to reduce searching. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Ser. B.267: 251-256. PDF

Uy, J. Albert C., Gail L. Patricelli & Gerald Borgia. 2001. Loss of preferred mates forces female satin bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) to increase mate searching. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Ser. B. 268: 633-638. PDF

Uy, J. Albert C., Gail L. Patricelli & Gerald Borgia. 2001. Complex Mate Searching in the Satin Bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus. American Naturalist. 158: 530-542. PDF

Patricelli, Gail L. , J. Albert C. Uy, Gregory Walsh & Gerald Borgia. 2002. Sexual selection: Male displays adjusted to female’s response. Nature.415: 279-280. PDF

Patricelli, G. L. , J. Albert C. Uy & Gerald Borgia. 2003. Multiple male traits interact: attractive physical displays facilitate attractive behavioral displays in satin bowerbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Ser. B. 270: 2389–2395. PDF

Patricelli, Gail L. Marc S. Dantzker and Jack W. Bradbury. 2003. Measuring the Directionality of Vocalizations in the Field: A Study on Red-Winged Blackbirds. In Proc. of the First International Conference on Acoustic Communication in Animals, pp. 197-198. University of Maryland, College Park.

Seth W. Coleman, Gail L. Patricelli, Brian Coyle, Jennifer Siani and Gerald Borgia. 2003. Spectrographic cross-correlation reveals a possible role for vocal mimicry: In satin bowerbirds, the most attractive males are the best mimics. In Proc. of the First International Conference on Acoustic Communication in Animals, pp. 51-52. University of Maryland, College Park.

Patricelli, Gail L ., J. Albert C. Uy & Gerald Borgia. 2004. Female signals enhance the efficiency of mate assessment in satin bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus). Behavioral Ecology. 15: 297-304. PDF

Coleman, Seth W., Gail L. Patricelli & Gerald Borgia. 2004. Variable Female Preferences Drive Complex Male Displays. Nature. 428: 742-745. PDF News&Views

Borgia, Gerald, Marc Egeth, J. Albert C. Uy & Gail L. Patricelli. 2004. Juvenile infection and male display: testing the bright male hypothesis across individual life histories. Behavioral Ecology.15: 722-728. PDF

Patricelli, Gail L., Seth W. Coleman & Gerald Borgia. 2006. Male satin bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) adjust their display intensity in response to female startling: an experiment with robotic females. Animal Behaviour. 71:49-59. PDF

Patricelli Gail L., Jessica L. Blickley, 2006. Overview: Avian communication in urban noise: the causes and consequences of vocal adjustment. The Auk 123:639-649. PDF

Patricelli, Gail L., J. Albert C. Uy, Gerald Borgia. 2006. Interactive signaling during mate choice in the satin bowerbird: an experimental test using robotic females. Journal of Ornithology . 147 (5): 12-12 Suppl. 1.

Patricelli, Gail L. Marc S. Dantzker and Jack W. Bradbury. 2006. Directionality in acoustic communication in Red-winged Blackbirds. Journal of Ornithology . 147 (5): 225-226 Suppl. 1.

Patricelli, Gail L., Marc S. Dantzker and Jack W. Bradbury. Differences in acoustic directionality among vocalizations of the male red-winged blackbird (Agelaius pheoniceus) are related to function in communication. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 61: 1099-1110. PDF

Sheila M. Reynolds, Katie Dryer, Jonathan Bollback, J. Albert C. Uy, Gail L. Patricelli, Timothy Robson, Gerald Borgia and Michael J. Braun. Behavioral paternity predicts genetic paternity in satin bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus ), a species with a non-resource-based mating system. The Auk . 124 (3): 857–867. PDF

Coleman, Seth W., Gail L. Patricelli, Brian Coyle, Jennifer Siani and Gerald Borgia. 2007. Female preferences drive the evolution of mimetic accuracy in male sexual displays. Biology Letters. 3:463-466. PDF

 

Lab Member Reprints

 

Krakauer, A.H. 2005. Kin selection and cooperative courtship in wild turkeys. Nature 434: 69-72. PDF

Krakauer, A.H. 2003. California Quail lays egg in Wild Turkey nest. Western Birds 34: 169-170. PDF

Adkins-Regan, E. & Krakauer, A. 2000. Removal of adult males from the rearing environment increases preference for same sex partners in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Animal Behaviour, 60: 47-53. PDF

Krakauer, A.H. & Krakauer, T.H. 1999. Foraging of Yellow-headed Caracaras in the fur of a three-toed sloth. Journal of Raptor Research 33: 270. PDF

Laidre, M. E. & Yorzinski, J. L. 2005. The silent bared-teeth face and the crest-raise of the mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx): A contextual analysis of signal function. Ethology, 111, 143-157. PDF

Yorzinski, J. L., Vehrencamp, S. L., Clark, A. B. & McGowan, K. J. 2006. The inflected alarm caw of the American Crow: Differences in acoustic structure among individuals and sexes. Condor, 108, 518-529. PDF


 

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