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The golden-mantled ground squirrel Citellus lateralis chrysodeirus (Merriam) its social and community interactions

Creator:: Wirtz, John Harold
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Marking .................. i 3 Color Discrimination Testing .............. i 8 Animal Movements

A study of behavior in the deer mouse Peromyscus maniculatus rubidus Osgood during its 24-hour cycle of activity in a simulated natural habitat

Creator:: Laban, Cornelis
Abstract:: With a growing emphasis on details of behavior comes an increasing need for knowledge of natural behavior patterns. Studies on the life history of Peromyscus maniculatus have long been available in the literature. More recently, investigators have turned to analyzing the behavior of some of the subspecies of P.m. in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: 3 Ethology 5 Field Studies 7 Animal Behavior 12 OBJECTIVES 19 Problems of Special Interest 20

A study of the effects of exposure to air on the respiration of two intertidal snails

Creator:: Baker, Carol Dianne
Abstract:: Callistoma costatum and Tegula funebralis, marine intertidal snails from low and high littoral zones respectively, were exposed to air for two, six and twelve hour periods, during which time their oxygen consumption rates were measured. The animals were then immersed in sea water and their respiration rates recorded for a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: W. Pritchard Callistoma costatum and Tegula funebralis, marine intertidal snails from low and

The roles of environmental constraints and aggression on male-female pairing in the coral-reef fish Gobiosoma evelynae

Creator:: Harding, Jeffrey A.
Abstract:: Early theoretical models for the evolution of male-female pairing were based largely on studies of birds. These models assumed that biparental care of eggs and young was an essential component of pairing. However, male-female pairing is also a relatively common social system in coral-reef fishes, and biparental care of young...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Ecological aspects of kin discriminating behavior with implications of functional value

Creator:: Hokit, D. Grant
Abstract:: To assess the context dependence of kin discriminating behavior, I examined kin-biased aggregation behavior in tadpoles of R. cascadae in different ecological conditions. I manipulated food distribution, predator presence, thermal heterogeneity, and relatedness in a multifactorial mesocosm experiment. All four factors interacted to influence tadpole dispersion. My results suggest that...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: -biased behavior (O'Hara and Blaustein 1982, Grafen 1990, Barnard 1991). An animal using phenotypic cues

Pheromonal mediation of reproductive behavior in the brown tree snake

Creator:: Greene, Michael John
Abstract:: In animals, reproductive behaviors serve to attract individuals together during the breeding season and to coordinate the behavioral and physiological states of individuals so that mating can successfully occur. In snakes, the various reproductive behaviors including courtship, mating, courtship inhibition, male combat and trailing are mediated primarily by pheromones. Pheromones...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: subject in the bioassay. If the animal displays the appropriate behavior to a fraction, components of the

Chemical signaling and pheromone evolution in plethodontid salamanders

Creator:: Palmer, Catherine Anne
Abstract:: My dissertation focuses on the evolutionary forces that have shaped the chemical signaling system of plethodontid salamanders. Pheromones mediate two phases of plethodontid reproduction: mate attraction prior to courtship and female persuasion during courtship. Substrate-borne chemical signals are believed to play an important role in mate attraction for these animals....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Animal Behavior Society, the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and the National

Pheromone mechanisms and behavioral strategies for maximizing courtship success in a terrestrial salamander, Plethodon shermani

Creator:: Vaccaro, Elyse A.
Abstract:: Darwin devised the evolutionary theory of sexual selection to account for the manifold extravagances of courtship behaviors and displays. Mating interactions represent a major evolutionary process driving the elaboration, vibrancy, and peculiarity of these courtship traits. For my dissertation research, I strived to elucidate the dynamics that constitute the complex...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the National Science Foundation and the Animal Behavior Society. My stipend was made possible

Courtship-induced changes in female sexual receptivity : a neuroendocrine study in an amphibian

Creator:: Propper, Catherine R.
Abstract:: This thesis describes studies that investigated 1) the effects of courtship on the neuroendocrine system of female rough-skinned newts, Taricha granulosa, and 2) whether the observed courtship-induced neuroendocrine changes affected female sexual receptivity. Sexual behaviors of female T. granulosa changed dramatically during courtship. Initially, females exhibited unreceptive behaviors to a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Patterns and mechanisms : postcopulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in a novel mating system

Creator:: Friesen, Christopher R.
Abstract:: Postcopulatory sexual selection—sperm competition and cryptic female choice—has become a major area of research over the past 40 years. Within this field there are many outstanding questions at every level of analysis, from proximate to ultimate. The fitness consequences for both sexes in the period after copulation and before fertilization...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: promiscuity is common and widespread across animal taxa (Smith 1984; Birkhead & Møller 1998; Simmons 2001

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The golden-mantled ground squirrel Citellus lateralis chrysodeirus (Merriam) its social and community interactions

A study of behavior in the deer mouse Peromyscus maniculatus rubidus Osgood during its 24-hour cycle of activity in a simulated natural habitat

A study of the effects of exposure to air on the respiration of two intertidal snails

The roles of environmental constraints and aggression on male-female pairing in the coral-reef fish Gobiosoma evelynae

Ecological aspects of kin discriminating behavior with implications of functional value

Pheromonal mediation of reproductive behavior in the brown tree snake

Chemical signaling and pheromone evolution in plethodontid salamanders

Pheromone mechanisms and behavioral strategies for maximizing courtship success in a terrestrial salamander, Plethodon shermani

Courtship-induced changes in female sexual receptivity : a neuroendocrine study in an amphibian

Patterns and mechanisms : postcopulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in a novel mating system

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