Intradialect variation in the song of 138 male Nuttall’s White-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia Zeucophrys nuttalli) was examined using multivariate cluster analyses on both quantitative (frequency and temporal) and qualitative (structural) variables. Mapping of song groups revealed local song clusters with a high degree of spatial overlap and the occurrence of “satellite” males located well outsi...

The Mycosphaerella complex is both poly- and paraphyletic, containing several different families and genera. The genus Mycosphaerella is restricted to species with Ramularia anamorphs, while Septoria is restricted to taxa that cluster with the type species of Septoria, S. cytisi, being closely related to Cercospora in the Mycosphaerellaceae. Species that occur on graminicolous hosts represent a...

SONG SONG†, WOLFGANG K. HÄRDLE‡,§ AND YA’ACOV RITOV‡,§ †Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama, 318B Gordon Palmer Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA. E-mail: [email protected] ‡School of Business and Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, D-10099, Berlin, Germany. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] §Department of Statistics, The Hebrew ...

Journal of Marketing Research Vol. XLVI (August 2009), 506–517 © 2009, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Yi Zhao is a Fellow of the Center for Excellence in Brand & Customer Management, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University (e-mail: [email protected]). Ying Zhao is Assistant Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), a...

A database of 30,137 EST sequences from Mycosphaerella graminicola, the septoria tritici blotch fungus of wheat, was scanned with a custom software pipeline for di- and trinucleotide units repeated tandemly six or more times. The bioinformatics analysis identified 109 putative SSR loci, and for 99 of them, flanking primers were developed successfully and tested for amplification and polymorphis...

Passerine song learning has become a major model system for the study of vocal learning, and many parallels with human language learning have been noted (Marler 1970; Brainard & Doupe 2002). One parallel that has been appreciated only recently is the key role of social factors in vocal development (Catchpole & Slater 1995; West et al. 1996; Snowdon & Hausberger 1997; Goldstein et al. 2003; Beec...

There are 23 species of Myrsidea recognized from passerine thraupid hosts. Five new species parasitic on members of this avian family are described. They and their type hosts are Myrsidea rozsai ex the Thick-billed Euphonia, Euphonia laniirostris d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, M. cruickshanki ex the Carmiol's Tanager, Chlorothraupis carmioli (Lawrence), M. patersoni ex the Grey-headed Tanager, Eucomet...