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Digest: Context matters: The effects of light environment and female presence on the structure of wolf spider courtship displays *
Author(s) -
Fialko Kristina
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/evo.13471
Subject(s) - wolf spider , courtship , spider , biology , context (archaeology) , courtship display , affect (linguistics) , variation (astronomy) , animal communication , zoology , evolutionary biology , communication , sociology , paleontology , physics , astrophysics
Does variation in the environment in which a signal is presented affect the components of a complex, ritualized animal display? Using a signal phenotype network, Rosenthal et al. (2018) found that light and female presence alter the structure of wolf spider courtship displays, providing evidence that complex signaling behaviors may be modified depending on the social and environmental context.