@article {53508,
	title = {Synchronous and Alternating Choruses in Insects and Anurans: Common Mechanisms and Diverse Functions},
	journal = {American Zoologist},
	volume = {34},
	year = {1994},
	month = {Jan-12-1994},
	pages = {605 - 615},
	abstract = {<p>Neighboring males in rhythmically calling insects and anurans often chorus in a synchronizing or alternating fashion. Neuroethological investigations of chorusing species reveal that their rhythms are maintained by pacemakers and that a basic interactive algorithm, common to many species, yields the collective synchrony or alternation observed. Traditionally, synchrony has been viewed as a cooperative event. However, recent evidence suggests that a collective synchronous display can also be an incidental outcome of signal \&ldquo;jamming\&rdquo; activities between neighboring males competing to attract females. This arises when female phonotaxis is influenced by a precedence effect in which the first of two or more closely synchronized calls is preferred. Under such circumstances, males are selected to adopt a timing mechanism averting following calls. If males happen to call at comparable rates, the adopted mechanism can yield synchrony as a by-product. Alternation, too, may be produced by a similar mechanism and also represent an epiphenomenon. That alternation, as opposed to synchrony, results may be a mere artefact of the species\&$\#$39; solo calling rate, but perceptual constraints may select specifically for alternation in some species.</p>
},
	issn = {0003-1569},
	doi = {10.1093/icb/34.6.605},
	url = {https://academic.oup.com/icb/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/icb/34.6.605}
}
