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Sexual selection and population divergence I. The influence of socially flexible cuticular hydrocarbon expression in male field crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus)

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Date
01/2016
Author
Pascoal, Sonia Christina Marques
Mendrok, Magdalena
Mitchell, Christopher
Wilson, Alastair
Hunt, John
Bailey, Nathan William
Funder
NERC
NERC
NERC
Grant ID
NE/G014906/1
NE/L011255/1
Ne/I027800/1
Keywords
Founder effect
Gene-by-social environment interaction
Interacting phenotype
Social flexibility
Range expansion
GE Environmental Sciences
QH301 Biology
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Debates about how coevolution of sexual traits and preferences might promote evolutionary diversification have permeated speciation research for over a century. Recent work demonstrates that the expression of such traits can be sensitive to variation in the social environment. Here we examined social flexibility in a sexually selected male trait – cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) profiles – in the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus and tested whether population genetic divergence predicts the extent or direction of social flexibility in allopatric populations. We manipulated male crickets’ social environments during rearing and then characterised CHC profiles. CHC signatures varied considerably across populations and also in response to the social environment, but our prediction that increased social flexibility would be selected in more recently founded populations exposed to fluctuating demographic environments was unsupported. Furthermore, models examining the influence of drift and selection failed to support a role of sexual selection in driving population divergence in CHC profiles. Variation in social environments might alter the dynamics of sexual selection, but our results align with theoretical predictions that the role social flexibility plays in modulating evolutionary divergence depends critically on whether responses to variation in the social environment are homogeneous across populations, or whether gene-by-social-environment interactions occur.
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Pascoal , S C M , Mendrok , M , Mitchell , C , Wilson , A , Hunt , J & Bailey , N W 2016 , ' Sexual selection and population divergence I. The influence of socially flexible cuticular hydrocarbon expression in male field crickets ( Teleogryllus oceanicus ) ' , Evolution , vol. 70 , no. 1 , pp. 82-97 . https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12839
Publication
Evolution
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12839
ISSN
0014-3820
Type
Journal article
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© 2016, Publisher / the Author(s). This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at onlinelibrary.wiley.com / https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.12839
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10088

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