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  • Functional integration of multiple sexual ornaments: signal coherence and sexual selection
  • The meaning of purely structural colour: white plumage reflectance indicates feather condition
  • Valproate exposure in ovo attenuates the acquisition of social preferences of young post-hatch domestic chicks
  • Accelerated redevelopment of vocal skills is preceded by lasting reorganization of the song motor circuitry
  • Climate change and plumage colouration
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Study objects

An enthusiast female great tit
Male moor frog during courtship
Male moor frog during courtship
Male moor frog during courtship
Common frog
Agile frog
Common toad
Common toad
Courting green lizard male
Immature green lizard
Immature green lizard
Pill bugs with different personalities
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Blue tit
Great tit male during courtship
An aggressive collared flycatcher female
A singing older collared flycatcher male
A collared flycatcher female
A collared flycatcher female
A collared flycatcher male at a natural nest-hole
A collared flycatcher male
A courting collared flycatcher male
Two collared flycatcher males competing each other
A collared flycatcher female collecting nesting material

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Projects

  • Acoustic mirrors project
  • Cultural Evolution in Birdsong
  • Plumage colour signals: dynamic and static mechanisms
  • Sex ratio project

Papers

  • Functional integration of multiple sexual ornaments: signal coherence and sexual selection
  • The meaning of purely structural colour: white plumage reflectance indicates feather condition
  • Valproate exposure in ovo attenuates the acquisition of social preferences of young post-hatch domestic chicks
  • Accelerated redevelopment of vocal skills is preceded by lasting reorganization of the song motor circuitry
  • Climate change and plumage colouration
  • Unravelling the relationships between life history, behaviour and condition
  • Escape ability and risk-taking behaviour in the collared flycatcher
  • Variation in mate quality dependent sex ratio adjustment
  • Reflectance variation in the blue tit crown
  • Acoustic mirrors as sensory traps for bats

Pictures from our life

Snakes are always funny Collecting of audio samples from courting collared flycatcher males Male moor frog during courtship Measuring a collared flycatcher Measuring of a collared flycatcher nestling Immature green lizard 17 A longhorn beetle (Morimus funereus) Preparing for a test of novelty avoidance A yellowhammer female warming her nestlings eurasian treecreeper at the entrance of its nest in the nest-box plot Sometimes we have to relax after work A European nuthatch in the nest-box plot An incubating common chaffinch in the nest-box plot Winter fog in the nest-box plot After freezing rain in the box-plot

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We like these research groups

  • MTA-PE Evolutionary Ecology Research Group
  • Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology, University of Debrecen
  • Evolutionary Ecology Research Group
  • Evolutionary Ecology Group, Babeş-Bolyai University, Kolozsvár

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EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Science

Institute of Biology
Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology
Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c.
H-1117 Budapest, Hungary

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