Sperm competition selects for sperm quantity and quality in the Australian Maluridae. by Melissah Rowe, Stephen Pruett-Jones

“…In a comparative study using the Australian Maluridae (fairy-wrens, emu-wrens, grasswrens), we tested whether increasing levels of sperm competition were associated with increases in both sperm quantity and quality, as well as an increase in the relative amount of seminiferous tubule tissue contained within the testes. …”
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Superb fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus) sons and daughters acquire song elements of mothers and social fathers by Christine eEvans, Sonia eKleindorfer

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Sex role similarity and sexual selection predict male and female song elaboration and dimorphism in fairy‐wrens by Karan J. Odom, Kristal E. Cain, Michelle L. Hall, Naomi E. Langmore, Raoul A. Mulder, Sonia Kleindorfer, Jordan Karubian, Lyanne Brouwer, Erik D. Enbody, John Anthony Jones, Jenélle L. Dowling, Ana V. Leitão, Emma I. Greig, Christine Evans, Allison E. Johnson, Kimberley K.‐A. Meyers, Marcelo Araya‐Salas, Michael S. Webster

“…We examined song in both sexes in 15 populations of nine‐fairy‐wren species (Maluridae), a Southern Hemisphere clade with female song. …”
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