Reproductive Behavior: The Role of Acoustic Signals in Species Recognition and Speciation

Claridge, M. F.; Vrijer, P.W.F. de

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“…Stewart, 1997), Neuroptera (Wells & Henry, 1992), Megaloptera (Ruprecht, 1975), Orthoptera (e.g. Spooner, 1968) and Hemiptera other than cicadas (Claridge & Vrijer, 1994). Such alternation in signal production has been reported previously in detail for the following cicadas: Cicadetta quadricincta (Gwynne, 1987), Kikihia and Amphisalta (Lane, 1995), Magicicada species (Cooley & Marshall, 2001), Okanagana canadensis and O. rimosa (Cooley, 2001).…”

Section: Male-female Acoustic Duetmentioning

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Acoustic signals in cicada courtship behaviour (order Hemiptera, genus Tibicina)

Sueur

Aubin

2004

Journal of Zoology

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During pair formation, cicadas produce acoustic signals that allow sexual partners to meet. The male is generally the emitter, producing calling songs at long range and courtship songs at short range, and the female generally the receiver. The male-female courtship behaviour of seven taxa belonging to the Palaearctic genus Tibicina is described here for the first time. Male courtship songs consisted of a succession of groups of pulses arranged in two sub-groups. They were short in duration with strong amplitude variations. In all taxa, courtship songs were preceded by a series of 1-5 audible wing-flicks. Differences in courtship song structure between two pairs of sympatric species, respectively T. corsica corsica/T. nigronervosa and T. corsica fairmairei/T. tomentosa, suggest that courtship signals could act as distinctive species mating recognition systems. In response to male acoustic signalling, females of T. c. corsica, T. c. fairmairei and T. nigronervosa produced audible wing-flicks such that both sexes established an acoustic duet ending in physical contact. In addition, males and females of T. tomentosa produced silent wing-flicks, a previously unknown behaviour, which could facilitate pheromone diffusion. Females did not exhibit a species-specific temporal pattern in acoustic reply to male courtship song and female wingflick behaviour does not seem necessary for pair formation. Nevertheless, this strategy through male and female signalling ensured a reciprocal phonotactic approach that probably enhanced the likelihood for the two sexes to meet in complex habitats.

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Section: Male-female Acoustic Duetmentioning

confidence: 52%

Acoustic signals in cicada courtship behaviour (order Hemiptera, genus Tibicina)

Sueur

Aubin

2004

Journal of Zoology

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“…This clear-cut interclass difference shows that in bony fishes and urodeles clonal reproduction is strictly spermdependent, while in hybrid lizards it can be achieved without insemination (Dawley, 1989;Mantovani & Scali, 1992). Among invertebrates a patchy occurrence of mostly parthenogenetic unisexual hybrids has been reported and a few new instances have been described recently (Bell, 1982;Bullini & Nascetti, 1990;Mantovani & Scali, 1990;Mantovani et al, 1991a, b;Scali et al, 1991;Claridge & de Vrijer, 1993).…”

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Mate recognition and gamete cytology features allow hybrid species production and evolution inBacillusstick insects

Scali

Tinti

Mantovani

et al. 1995

Bolletino di zoologia

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The increasing number of recognized hybrid unisexual complexes among invertebrate and vertebrate animals has promoted investigations about their composition and origin. Morphological, karyological and genetic (protein and DNA) analyses clearly show that, owing to their persistence and incomplete reproductive isolation from ancestors, several all-female complexes are much more diversified than generally assumed and that they may also have an evolutionary role. Here the case of the stick-insects of the genus Bacillus is reported in some detail. This holomediterranean genus comprises three well differentiated species that in Sicily have hybridized repeatedly. The Bacillus mate-recognition system has not followed the species-specific differentiation of the allozyme-coding loci, allowing interspecific crosses to occur in areas of species sympatry with the production of two hybridogens, a corresponding allodiploid parthenogen and a trihybrid triploid parthenogenetic species. Hybridogenetic females eliminate the paternal haploset (grandii) while passing the unassorted rossius hemiclone to offspring, which will be again of F, hybrid structure through a real fertilization by host male sperm. The polyspermic eggs of the hybridogens can also produce full-paternal fertile progeny of both sexes (androgenetics), when mixis occurs between two sperm heads. The parthenogenetic mechanism of the corresponding hybrid B. whitei is very similar to the hybridogenetic one, excepting the automictic re-use of the segregated grandii haploset; therefore B. whitei offspring clonally maintain the maternal hybrid structure. The trihybrid B. lynceorum produces clonal descendants through an apomictic mechanism undergoing two seemingly normal meiotic divisions. Each Bacillus hybrid actually realizes a different egg maturation process; however, the three share one important feature: an intrameiotic DNA extra-doubling, leading to the formation of four-stranded chromosomes, and enabling the meiotic system to produce balanced gametes even under different ploidy level and hybrid structure. The extra-round of DNA synthesis seems to be triggered by the hybrid condition impairing the synaptic process. Also the parthenogenetic B. whitei produces androgenetics and it is even capable of incorporating a third genome into its automictic but clonal eggs, following fertilization by B. grandii or B. rossius males with the production of fertile «synthetic» triploids. These findings are evidence of clonal unisexuals reproductively interacting with related bisexuals and also suggest that evolutionary pathways have been undertaken by Bacillus. Also other unisexual complexes seem to have undergone similar microevolutionary steps and their reproductive traits and persistence, longer than commonly assumed, make increasingly difficult to think of the whole of unisexuals as «dead ends» or «blind alleys».

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“…Planthoppers in the Delphacidae family use substrateborne signals to locate and court mates (Ossiannilsson, 1949;Ichikawa, 1976;de Vrijer, 1984;Claridge, 1985a, b;Claridge & de Vrijer, 1985). Planthopper courtship signals consist of a 'whine' portion followed by a series of pulses ( Fig.…”

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“…Changes in the production and/or processing of sexual signals have the potential to promote rapid divergence among populations of animals (West-Eberhard, 1983) and changes in sexual communication systems are known to play a central role in shaping patterns of diversity (Claridge & de Vrijer, 1985;Gray & Cade, 2000;Masta & Maddison, 2002). Thus, identifying the processes contributing to variation in signals and receiver preferences is key to understanding the drivers of speciation.…”

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Rapid diversification of sexual signals in HawaiianNesosydneplanthoppers (Hemiptera: Delphacidae): the relative role of neutral and selective forces

Goodman

Kelley

Welter

et al. 2015

J of Evolutionary Biology

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Changes in sexual signals have the potential to promote rapid divergence and reproductive isolation among populations of animals. Thus, identifying processes contributing to variation in signals is key to understanding the drivers of speciation. However, it is difficult to identify the processes initiating changes in signals in empirical systems because (1) the demographic history of populations under study is usually unclear, and (2) there is no unified hypothesis-testing framework for evaluating the simultaneous contribution of multiple processes. A unique system for study in the Hawaiian Islands, the planthopper species Nesosydne chambersi, offers a clear demographic context to disentangle these factors. By measuring variation in male vibratory sexual signals across different genetic populations on the island of Hawaii, we found that that multiple signal traits varied significantly between populations. We developed a mixed modelling framework to simultaneously test competing hypotheses about which processes contribute to changes in signal traits: genetic drift, sensory drive or reproductive character displacement. Our findings suggest that signal divergence proceeds along different axes for different signal traits under the influence of both neutral and selective processes. They are the first, to our knowledge, to document the relative importance of multiple processes on divergence in sexual signals.

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Reproductive Behavior: The Role of Acoustic Signals in Species Recognition and Speciation

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Acoustic signals in cicada courtship behaviour (order Hemiptera, genus Tibicina)

Acoustic signals in cicada courtship behaviour (order Hemiptera, genus Tibicina)

Mate recognition and gamete cytology features allow hybrid species production and evolution inBacillusstick insects

Rapid diversification of sexual signals in HawaiianNesosydneplanthoppers (Hemiptera: Delphacidae): the relative role of neutral and selective forces

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