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Parasitoid–host eavesdropping reveals temperature coupling of preferences to communication signals without genetic coupling
Receivers of acoustic communication signals evaluate signal features to identify conspecifics. Changes in the ambient temperature can alter these features, rendering species recognition a challenge. To maintain effective communication, temperature coupling—changes in receiver signal preferences that...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10427829/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37583323 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0775 |
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author | Jirik, Karina J. Dominguez, Jimena A. Abdulkarim, Iya Glaaser, Johanna Stoian, Emilia S. Almanza, Luis J. Lee, Norman |
author_facet | Jirik, Karina J. Dominguez, Jimena A. Abdulkarim, Iya Glaaser, Johanna Stoian, Emilia S. Almanza, Luis J. Lee, Norman |
author_sort | Jirik, Karina J. |
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description | Receivers of acoustic communication signals evaluate signal features to identify conspecifics. Changes in the ambient temperature can alter these features, rendering species recognition a challenge. To maintain effective communication, temperature coupling—changes in receiver signal preferences that parallel temperature-induced changes in signal parameters—occurs among genetically coupled signallers and receivers. Whether eavesdroppers of communication signals exhibit temperature coupling is unknown. Here, we investigate if the parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea, an eavesdropper of cricket calling songs, exhibits song pulse rate preferences that are temperature coupled. We use a high-speed treadmill system to record walking phonotaxis at three ambient temperatures (21, 25, and 30°C) in response to songs that varied in pulse rates (20 to 90 pulses per second). Total walking distance, peak steering velocity, angular heading, and the phonotaxis performance index varied with song pulse rates and ambient temperature. The peak of phonotaxis performance index preference functions became broader and shifted to higher pulse rate values at higher temperatures. Temperature-related changes in cricket songs between 21 and 30°C did not drastically affect the ability of flies to recognize cricket calling songs. These results confirm that temperature coupling can occur in eavesdroppers that are not genetically coupled with signallers. |
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spelling | pubmed-104278292023-08-17 Parasitoid–host eavesdropping reveals temperature coupling of preferences to communication signals without genetic coupling Jirik, Karina J. Dominguez, Jimena A. Abdulkarim, Iya Glaaser, Johanna Stoian, Emilia S. Almanza, Luis J. Lee, Norman Proc Biol Sci Behaviour Receivers of acoustic communication signals evaluate signal features to identify conspecifics. Changes in the ambient temperature can alter these features, rendering species recognition a challenge. To maintain effective communication, temperature coupling—changes in receiver signal preferences that parallel temperature-induced changes in signal parameters—occurs among genetically coupled signallers and receivers. Whether eavesdroppers of communication signals exhibit temperature coupling is unknown. Here, we investigate if the parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea, an eavesdropper of cricket calling songs, exhibits song pulse rate preferences that are temperature coupled. We use a high-speed treadmill system to record walking phonotaxis at three ambient temperatures (21, 25, and 30°C) in response to songs that varied in pulse rates (20 to 90 pulses per second). Total walking distance, peak steering velocity, angular heading, and the phonotaxis performance index varied with song pulse rates and ambient temperature. The peak of phonotaxis performance index preference functions became broader and shifted to higher pulse rate values at higher temperatures. Temperature-related changes in cricket songs between 21 and 30°C did not drastically affect the ability of flies to recognize cricket calling songs. These results confirm that temperature coupling can occur in eavesdroppers that are not genetically coupled with signallers. The Royal Society 2023-08-30 2023-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10427829/ /pubmed/37583323 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0775 Text en © 2023 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Behaviour Jirik, Karina J. Dominguez, Jimena A. Abdulkarim, Iya Glaaser, Johanna Stoian, Emilia S. Almanza, Luis J. Lee, Norman Parasitoid–host eavesdropping reveals temperature coupling of preferences to communication signals without genetic coupling |
title | Parasitoid–host eavesdropping reveals temperature coupling of preferences to communication signals without genetic coupling |
title_full | Parasitoid–host eavesdropping reveals temperature coupling of preferences to communication signals without genetic coupling |
title_fullStr | Parasitoid–host eavesdropping reveals temperature coupling of preferences to communication signals without genetic coupling |
title_full_unstemmed | Parasitoid–host eavesdropping reveals temperature coupling of preferences to communication signals without genetic coupling |
title_short | Parasitoid–host eavesdropping reveals temperature coupling of preferences to communication signals without genetic coupling |
title_sort | parasitoid–host eavesdropping reveals temperature coupling of preferences to communication signals without genetic coupling |
topic | Behaviour |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10427829/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37583323 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0775 |
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