ANIMAL COMMUNICATION, BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY & ICHTHYOLOGY
Seth W. Coleman 
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biology
Texas A&M University
email: scoleman@bio.tamu.edu
Ph. D. Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics Program, University of Maryland, Spring 2005
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Coleman, S. W., Patricelli, G. L., Coyle, B., Siani, J. and Borgia, G. 2007. Female preferences drive the evolution of mimetic accuracy in male sexual displays. Biology Letters, doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0234. (pdf)
Coleman, S. W. and Jensen, J. 2007. Male mating success – preference or prowess? Investigating sexual selection in the laboratory using Drosophila melanogaster. The American Biology Teacher 69, 351-358. (pdf)
Coleman, S. W. and Rosenthal, G. G. 2006. Swordtailfry attend to chemical and visual cues in detecting predators and conspecifics. PLoS ONE 1: 1-4. (pdf)
Patricelli, G. L., Coleman, S. W. and Borgia, G. 2006. Male satin bowerbirds, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, adjust their display intensity in response to female startling: an experiment with robotic females. Animal Behaviour 71: 49-59. (pdf)
Coleman, S. W., Patricelli, G. L., and Borgia, G. 2004. Variable female preferences drive complex male displays. Nature 428: 742-745. (pdf)
Coleman, S. W., Patricelli, G. L., Coyle, B., Siani, J. and Borgia, G. 2003. Spectrographic cross-correlation reveals a possible role for vocal mimicry: In satin bowerbirds, the most attractive males are the best mimics. In Proc. of the First International Conference on Acoustic Communication in Animals, pp. 51-52. University of Maryland, College Park. (pdf)
Borgia, G. and Coleman, S. W. 2000. Co-option of male courtship calls from aggressive display in bowerbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 267: 1735-1740. (pdf)
Presentations with published abstracts
Coleman, S. W., Patricelli, G. L. and Borgia, G. Variable female preferences drive complex male displays. 2004 International Society for Behavioral Ecology, Jyväskylä, Finland. Coleman, S. W., Patricelli, G. L. and Borgia, G. Variable female preference drive complex male displays. 2004 Animal Behavior Society, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Coleman, S. W., Patricelli, G. L., Coyle, B., Siani, J. and Borgia, G. Spectrographic cross-correlation reveals a possible role for vocal mimicry: In satin bowerbirds, the most attractive males are the best mimics. 2003 Acoustic Signals in Animals Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, U.S.A.
Findings are the subject of a National Geographic News article by Bijal Trivedi, 22 September 2003. (Read article).
Coleman, S. W., Patricelli, G. L. and Borgia, G. Complexity in mate choice: age- and context-related differences in female assessment of male display traits. Oral presentation, 2003 Northeast Ecology & Evolution Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A.
Coleman, S. W., Patricelli, G. L. and Borgia, G. Multiple signals for multiple receivers: experience-based differences in female choice of male display traits. Oral presentation, 2002 Meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada.
Coleman, S. W. and Borgia, G. Age-related differences in color preferences of male satin bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus). Poster presentation, 2001 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, U.S.A.
Coleman, S. W. and Borgia, G. Evidence for learning in the development of complex display in the satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus). Poster presentation, 2000 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.