Article
Coevolution of male mating signal and female preference during early lineage divergence of the Hawaiian cricket, Laupala cerasina.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Aug 2011
Grace Jaime L, Shaw Kerry L
Abstract excerpt
Sexual selection is a powerful evolutionary force shaping mate choice phenotypes, initiating phenotypic shifts resulting in (or reinforcing) population divergence and speciation when such shifts reduce mating probabilities among divergent populations. In the Hawaiian cricket genus Laupala, pulse rate of male calling song, a conspicuous mating signal, differs among species, potentially behaving as a speciation...
Topics
- Animal Communication
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Female
- Gene Flow
- Gryllidae
- Male
- Mating Preference, Animal
- Phenotype
- Selection, Genetic
