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Multiple differences in calling songs and other traits between solitary and gregarious Mormon crickets from allopatric mtDNA clades.
BMC evolutionary biology - 22 Jan 2007
Bailey Nathan W, Gwynne Darryl T, Bailey William V, Ritchie Michael G
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BACKGROUND: In acoustic species, traits such as male calling song are likely to diverge quickly between allopatric populations due to sexual selection, and divergence in parameters such as carrier frequency, chirp structure, and other important song characters can influence sexual isolation. Here we make use of two forms of Mormon crickets to examine differences in a broad suite of traits that have the potential...
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