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Multiple differences in calling songs and other traits between solitary and gregarious Mormon crickets from allopatric mtDNA clades
BACKGROUND: In acoustic species, traits such as male calling song are likely to diverge quickly between allopatric populations due to sexual selection, and divergence in parameters such as carrier frequency, chirp structure, and other important song characters can influence sexual isolation. Here we...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1790887/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17241474 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-5 |
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author | Bailey, Nathan W Gwynne, Darryl T Bailey, William V Ritchie, Michael G |
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description | BACKGROUND: In acoustic species, traits such as male calling song are likely to diverge quickly between allopatric populations due to sexual selection, and divergence in parameters such as carrier frequency, chirp structure, and other important song characters can influence sexual isolation. Here we make use of two forms of Mormon crickets to examine differences in a broad suite of traits that have the potential to influence speciation via sexual isolation. Mormon crickets in "gregarious" populations aggregate into dense migratory bands, and females are the sexually competitive sex (sex-role reversal). There is also a non-outbreak "solitary" form. These two forms are largely but not perfectly correlated with a significant mtDNA subdivision within the species that is thought to have arisen in allopatry. Combined information about multiple, independently evolving traits, such as morphology and structural and behavioural differences in calling song, provides greater resolution of the overall differences between these allopatric populations, and allows us to assess their stage of divergence. We test two predictions, first that the forms differ in song and second that gregarious males are more reluctant to sing than solitary males due to sex role reversal. We also tested for a difference in the relationship between the size of the forewing resonator, the mirror, and carrier frequency, as most models of sound production in crickets indicate that mirror size should predict carrier frequency. RESULTS: Multivariate analyses showed that solitary and gregarious individuals from different populations representing the two mtDNA clades had almost non-overlapping distributions based on multiple song and morphological measurements. Carrier frequency differed between the two, and gregarious males were more reluctant to sing overall. Mirror size predicted carrier frequency; however, the relationship between mirror size and surface area varied between solitary and gregarious forms, suggesting that factors above and beyond mirror size contribute to carrier frequency. CONCLUSION: The two clades of Mormon crickets differ in a broad suite of independent traits that probably justify subspecies status (the two can successfully mate so may not be reproductively isolated). However, our results emphasize the importance of carefully distinguishing the ultimate causation of differences between traits used to delineate species or subspecies boundaries. |
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spelling | pubmed-17908872007-02-03 Multiple differences in calling songs and other traits between solitary and gregarious Mormon crickets from allopatric mtDNA clades Bailey, Nathan W Gwynne, Darryl T Bailey, William V Ritchie, Michael G BMC Evol Biol Research Article BACKGROUND: In acoustic species, traits such as male calling song are likely to diverge quickly between allopatric populations due to sexual selection, and divergence in parameters such as carrier frequency, chirp structure, and other important song characters can influence sexual isolation. Here we make use of two forms of Mormon crickets to examine differences in a broad suite of traits that have the potential to influence speciation via sexual isolation. Mormon crickets in "gregarious" populations aggregate into dense migratory bands, and females are the sexually competitive sex (sex-role reversal). There is also a non-outbreak "solitary" form. These two forms are largely but not perfectly correlated with a significant mtDNA subdivision within the species that is thought to have arisen in allopatry. Combined information about multiple, independently evolving traits, such as morphology and structural and behavioural differences in calling song, provides greater resolution of the overall differences between these allopatric populations, and allows us to assess their stage of divergence. We test two predictions, first that the forms differ in song and second that gregarious males are more reluctant to sing than solitary males due to sex role reversal. We also tested for a difference in the relationship between the size of the forewing resonator, the mirror, and carrier frequency, as most models of sound production in crickets indicate that mirror size should predict carrier frequency. RESULTS: Multivariate analyses showed that solitary and gregarious individuals from different populations representing the two mtDNA clades had almost non-overlapping distributions based on multiple song and morphological measurements. Carrier frequency differed between the two, and gregarious males were more reluctant to sing overall. Mirror size predicted carrier frequency; however, the relationship between mirror size and surface area varied between solitary and gregarious forms, suggesting that factors above and beyond mirror size contribute to carrier frequency. CONCLUSION: The two clades of Mormon crickets differ in a broad suite of independent traits that probably justify subspecies status (the two can successfully mate so may not be reproductively isolated). However, our results emphasize the importance of carefully distinguishing the ultimate causation of differences between traits used to delineate species or subspecies boundaries. BioMed Central 2007-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC1790887/ /pubmed/17241474 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-5 Text en Copyright © 2007 Bailey et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Bailey, Nathan W Gwynne, Darryl T Bailey, William V Ritchie, Michael G Multiple differences in calling songs and other traits between solitary and gregarious Mormon crickets from allopatric mtDNA clades |
title | Multiple differences in calling songs and other traits between solitary and gregarious Mormon crickets from allopatric mtDNA clades |
title_full | Multiple differences in calling songs and other traits between solitary and gregarious Mormon crickets from allopatric mtDNA clades |
title_fullStr | Multiple differences in calling songs and other traits between solitary and gregarious Mormon crickets from allopatric mtDNA clades |
title_full_unstemmed | Multiple differences in calling songs and other traits between solitary and gregarious Mormon crickets from allopatric mtDNA clades |
title_short | Multiple differences in calling songs and other traits between solitary and gregarious Mormon crickets from allopatric mtDNA clades |
title_sort | multiple differences in calling songs and other traits between solitary and gregarious mormon crickets from allopatric mtdna clades |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1790887/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17241474 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-5 |
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