Evolutionary loss of complexity in animal signals: cause and consequence

• Main Authors: Ord, Terry J., Diesmos, Arvin, Norhayati, Ahmad, Das, Indraneil
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2023
• Subjects: QL Zoology
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/41537/1/Evolutionary%20loss%20of%20complexity%20in%20animal%20signals.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/41537/; https://academic.oup.com/evolut?login=false; https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpac057

We identified hypotheses for the cause and consequences of the loss of complexity in animal signals and tested these using a genus of visually communicating lizards, the Southeast Asian Draco lizards. Males of some species have lost the headbob component from their display, which is otherwise centra...