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Overview

Naomi E. Langmore is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on avian ecology and behavior, animal vocal communication and behavior, and related fields within agricultural and biological sciences, environmental science, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work spans multiple subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, developmental biology, parasitology, and genetics. Their research addresses specific topics such as bird parasitology and diseases, plant parasitism and resistance, animal ecology and behavior studies, and animal behavior and reproduction.

Naomi E. Langmore's recent publications include:

  • Loss of vocal culture and fitness costs in a critically endangered songbird (2021), published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Avian vocalisations: the female perspective (2021), published in Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Using conservation genetics to prioritise management options for an endangered songbird (2023), published in Heredity
  • Coevolution with hosts underpins speciation in brood-parasitic cuckoos (2024), published in Science
  • Sex role similarity and sexual selection predict male and female song elaboration and dimorphism in fairy-wrens (2021), published in Ecology and Evolution

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, most notably:

  • Robert Heinsohn (9 publications)
  • Hee-Jin Noh (6 publications)
  • Ross Crates (5 publications)
  • Dejan Stojanović (4 publications)
  • Alicia Grealy (4 publications)

Naomi E. Langmore's work has been published in a number of venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Animal Behaviour (5 publications)
  • Current Zoology (3 publications)
  • Ecology and Evolution (2 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (2 publications)
  • Current Biology (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Functions of duet and solo songs of female birds.

    N.E Langmore

  • Female song is widespread and ancestral in songbirds.

    Karan J. Odom;Michelle L. Hall;Katharina Riebel;Kevin E. Omland

  • Escalation of a coevolutionary arms race through host rejection of brood parasitic young

    Naomi E. Langmore;Sarah Hunt;Rebecca M. Kilner

  • Reduced Egg Investment Can Conceal Helper Effects in Cooperatively Breeding Birds

    A.F. Russell;Naomi Langmore;Andrew Cockburn;Lee B Astheimer

  • Cuckoos versus hosts in insects and birds: adaptations, counter‐adaptations and outcomes

    Rebecca M. Kilner;Naomi E. Langmore

  • QUIET SONG IN SONG BIRDS: AN OVERLOOKED PHENOMENON

    Torben Dabelsteen;Peter K. McGREGOR;Helene M. Lampe;Naomi E. Langmore

  • Dominant males punish helpers for temporary defection in superb fairy-wrens

    Raoul A. Mulder;Naomi E. Langmore

  • The frontline of avian brood parasite-host coevolution

    William E. Feeney;Justin A. Welbergen;Justin A. Welbergen;Naomi E. Langmore

  • Advances in the Study of Coevolution Between Avian Brood Parasites and Their Hosts

    William E. Feeney;Justin A. Welbergen;Naomi E. Langmore

  • Female Song Attracts Males in the Alpine Accentor Prunella collaris

    N. E. Langmore;N. B. Davies;B. J. Hatchwell;Ian R. Hartley

  • Visual mimicry of host nestlings by cuckoos

    Naomi E. Langmore;Martin Stevens;Golo Maurer;Robert Heinsohn

  • Are dark cuckoo eggs cryptic in host nests

    Naomi Langmore;M. Stevens;Golo Maurer;Rebecca Kilner

  • New insights from female bird song: towards an integrated approach to studying male and female communication roles.

    Katharina Riebel;Karan J Odom;Karan J Odom;Naomi E Langmore;Michelle L Hall

  • Brood Parasitism and the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds

    William Feeney;Iliana Medina;M. Somveille;Robert Heinsohn

  • The evolution of egg rejection by cuckoo hosts in Australia and Europe

    N E Langmore;R M Kilner;S H M Butchart;G Maurer

  • Socially acquired host-specific mimicry and the evolution of host races in Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo Chalcites basalis

    Naomi E. Langmore;Golo Maurer;Greg J. Adcock;Rebecca M. Kilner

  • Competition for male reproductive investment elevates testosterone levels in female dunnocks, Prunella modularis

    Naomi Langmore;J.F. Cockrem;E.J. Candy

  • Female songbirds still struggling to be heard.

    Katharina Riebel;Michelle L. Hall;Naomi E. Langmore

  • Female control of copulations to maximize male help: a comparison of polygynandrous alpine accentors,Prunella collaris, and dunnocks,P. modularis

    N. B. Davies;Ian R. Hartley;B. J. Hatchwell;N. E. Langmore

  • Conspicuous, Ultraviolet-Rich Mouth Colours in Begging Chicks

    Sarah Hunt;Rebecca M. Kilner;Naomi E. Langmore;Andrew T. D. Bennett

  • Cryptic gentes revealed in pallid cuckoos Cuculus pallidus using reflectance spectrophotometry

    M. Starling;Robert Heinsohn;Andrew Cockburn;Naomi Langmore

  • Flexible cuckoo chick-rejection rules in the superb fairy-wren

    Naomi E. Langmore;Andrew Cockburn;Andrew F. Russell;Rebecca M. Kilner

Frequent Co-Authors

Rebecca M. Kilner
Rebecca M. Kilner University of Cambridge
Robert Heinsohn
Robert Heinsohn Australian National University
Michelle L. Hall
Michelle L. Hall University of Melbourne
Andrew Cockburn
Andrew Cockburn Australian National University
Katharina Riebel
Katharina Riebel Leiden University
Anne Peters
Anne Peters Monash University
Andrew F. Russell
Andrew F. Russell University of Exeter
Kevin E. Omland
Kevin E. Omland University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Michael J. L. Magrath
Michael J. L. Magrath University of Melbourne
Claire N. Spottiswoode
Claire N. Spottiswoode University of Cape Town

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