Research Affiliate
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Unit 0948
APO AA 34002-0948
http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/ryan/
Research Interests
My current research concentrates on animal communication in frogs and fish.
Current Research Projects
Function and evolution of sexual communcation in tungara frogs. Function and evolution of sexual communcation in swordtails.
Recent Publications
Ryan, M.J. 1998. Receiver biases, sexual selection and the evolution of sex differences. Science. 281:1999-2003.
Ryan, M.J.; Rand, W.; Hurd, P.L.; Phelps, S.M.; Rand. A.S. 2003. Generalization in response to mate recognition signals. The American Naturalist 161:380-394.
Ryan, M.J.; Rand, A.S. 2003. Sexual selection and female preference space: How female túngara frogs perceive and respond to complex population variation in acoustic mating signals. Evolution 57:2608-2618.
Ryan, M.J. 2005. The evolution of behavior, and integrating it towards a complete and correct understanding of behavioral biology. Journal of Animal Biology. 55:419-439.
Hoke, K.L.; Ryan, M.J.; Wilczynski, W. 2005. Acoustic social cues shift functional connectivity in the hypothalamus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 102:10712-10717.
Griddi Papp, M.; Rand, A.S.; Ryan, M.J. 2006. Complex call production in túngara frogs. Nature 441:38.
Hill, S.; Ryan, M.J. 2006. The role of female quality in the mate choice copying behaviour of sailfin mollies. Biology Letters 2:203-205.
Page, R.A.; Ryan, M.J. 2006. Social transmission of novel foraging behavior in bats:Frog calls and their referents. Current Biology 16:1201-1205.
Phelps, S.M.; Rand, A.S.; Ryan, M.J. 2006. A cogitive framework for mate choice and species recognition. The American Naturalist 167:28-42.
Kirkpatrick, M.; Rand, A.S.; Ryan. M.J. 2006. Mate choice rules in animals. Animal Behaviour.72:1215-1225.
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