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Behavioural plasticity compensates for adaptive loss of cricket song.
Ecology letters - 1 Mar 2024
Schneider Will T, Rutz Christian, Bailey Nathan W
Abstract excerpt
Behavioural flexibility might help animals cope with costs of genetic variants under selection, promoting genetic adaptation. However, it has proven challenging to experimentally link behavioural flexibility to the predicted compensation of population-level fitness. We tested this prediction using the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus. In Hawaiian populations, a mutation silences males and protects against...
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