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Title: Golden-collared manakin

Topic: Peripheral androgen receptors effects on mating signals

Male golden-collared manakins perform an acrobatic exhibition and use specific vocalizations to court females. Males emit a specific chee-poo sound during courtship. Studies have examined whether the call of golden-collared manakins is physiologically altered resulting from peripheral androgen receptors (AR). When inhibiting the AR outside of the central nervous system, an increase in the duration of the chee note was observed; similarly, the same treatment resulted in a decrease in the frequency of the poo note. This treatment caused no discernable change to chee-poo frequency modulation. The results show that the activation of peripheral AR facilitates note-specific changes to pitch characteristics of the Golden-collared manakin's sexual call.

For the Wikipedia page, there is practically no information posted at all. With that in mind, it would be ideal to create a subsection of the page dedicated to reproduction and mating for the Golden-collared manakin.

Sources

1.      Peripheral androgen action helps modulate vocal production in a suboscine passerine, Fuxjager et al. 2014

2.      Peripheral Androgen Receptors Sustain the Acrobatics and Fine Motor Skill of Elaborate Male Courtship, Fuxjager et al. 2013