Projekt

This project will examine the role of chemical signals in sexual contexts and sexual selection of songbirds. The evolutionary fitness of an individual is assessed by the number of genes transferred to the next generation, thus by offspring (direct fitness) and/or by helping close relatives to reproduce (indirect fitness). How this key step of increasing fitness is affected by the individual bird odour will be examined with the experiments suggested here. This collaborative project of Luisa Amo and Tobias Krause will lead to a comprehensive understanding of chemical social communication in songbirds.

• Dr. Tobias Krause

  Universität Bielefeld
  Fakultät für Biologie
  Department of Animal Behaviour
  Bielefeld
  

• Luisa Amo de Paz, Ph.D.

  Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
  CSIC
  Evolutionary Ecology Department
  Madrid
  Spanien