Didn't see that the bioRxiv neuro bot posted a link to our preprint a while back! We looked at behavioral and neural responses to courtship-related tail movements in axolotls. We found support for 3 (!) different models of evolution of communication depending which data we looked at. #neuroethology
Mechanosensory Signaling in Axolotl Courtship and Evolution of Communication https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.13.718269v1