Article
Genomic signatures of adaptation across a landscape of crickets following the introduction of a parasitoid fly.
Science advances - 11 Sept 2026
Rayner Jack G, Yusuf Leeban H, Zhang Renjie, Zhang Shangzhe, Gaggiotti Oscar E, Bailey Nathan W
Abstract excerpt
Novel species interactions provide an opportunity to assess the earliest stages of genetic adaptation. We combined population genomics and field selection surveys to explore the genomic and geographic landscape of adaptation in small, fragmented Hawaiian cricket populations, which are parasitized by larvae of an introduced fly that targets singing males. Multiple protective male-silencing cricket morphs have...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
- Animals
- Gryllidae
- Male
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Diptera
- Selection, Genetic
- Genomics