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Sexual selection on cuticular hydrocarbons of male sagebrush crickets in the wild.
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- Behavioural consequences of intraspecific variability in a mate recognition signal.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Cuticular hydrocarbon profiles differ between ant body parts: implications for communication and our understanding of CHC diffusion.Current zoology · 2021Article
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- Multivariate stabilizing sexual selection and the evolution of male and female genital morphology in the red flour beetle.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2020Article
- Genetic divergence and phenotypic plasticity contribute to variation in cuticular hydrocarbons in the seaweed flyEcology and evolution · 2019Article
- Natural and sexual selection on cuticular hydrocarbons: a quantitative genetic analysis.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Sexual Selection on male cuticular hydrocarbons via male-male competition and female choice.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2016Article
- The Long and the Short of Mate Attraction in a Psylloid: do Semiochemicals Mediate Mating in Aacanthocnema dobsoni Froggatt?Journal of chemical ecology · 2016Article
- Beyond species recognition: somatic state affects long-distance sex pheromone communication.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
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Abstract
Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) play an essential role in mate recognition in insects but the form and intensity of sexual selection on CHCs has only been evaluated in a handful of studies, and never in a natural population. We quantified sexual selection operating on CHCs in a wild population of sagebrush crickets, a species in which nuptial feeding by females imposes an unambiguous phenotypic marker on males. Multivariate selection analysis revealed a saddle-shaped fitness surface, suggesting a complex interplay between the total abundance of CHCs and specific CHC combinations in their influence on female choice. The fitness surface resulting from two axes of disruptive selection reflected a trade-off between short- and long-chained CHCs, suggesting that males may be sacrificing some level of desiccation resistance in favour of increased attractiveness. There was a significant correlation between male body size and total CHC abundance, suggesting that male CHCs provide females with a reliable cue for maximizing benefits obtained from males. Notwithstanding the conspicuousness of males' acoustic signals, our results suggest that selection imposed on males via female mating preferences may be far more complex than previously appreciated and operating in multiple sensory modalities.
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