| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Authors: | M. G. Ritchie |
| Journal: | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences |
| Volume: | 267 |
| Pagination: | 327–332 |
| Date Published: | February |
| Keywords: | ephippiger, evolution, genetics, mrs, orthoptera, preference, recognition, speciation |
| Abstract: | 10.1098/rspb.2000.1004 Mate recognition systems (MRSs) play a major role in sexual selection and speciation, yet few studies have analysed both male and female components in detail. Here, female preference functions have been characterized for the tettigoniid bushcricket , and the inheritance of male song and female preference functions followed in crosses between subspecies. Songs are disproportionately determined by sex–linked genes. However, there is no evidence for a role of maternally derived sex–linked genes in female preference or of maternal effects. At the genetic level, there is a mismatch between peak preferences and male song, consistent with an evolutionary history of persistent directional preferences. Such a pattern of inheritance could contribute to the process of speciation via the evolution of new MRSs. |
| URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2000.1004 |
| DOI: | 10.1098/rspb.2000.1004 |