Female preference functions drive interpopulation divergence in male signalling: call diversity in the bushcricket Ephippiger diurnus.

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Female preferences play a major role in the elaboration and diversification of male traits: as a selective pressure on males, variation in female preferences can generate population divergence and ultimately, speciation. We studied how interpopulation differences in the shape of female mate preference functions may have shaped male advertisement signals in the bushcricket Ephippiger diurnus. This species is...

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