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Environmental correlates of sexual signaling in the Heteroptera : a prospective study

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Date
30/11/2021
Author
Gourevitch, Eleanor H. Z.
Shuker, David Michael
Keywords
Antennation
Chemical signaling
Sexual selection
Heteroptera
Abdominal vibration
Sexual communication
Stridulation
QH301 Biology
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Abstract
Sexual selection is a major evolutionary process, shaping organisms in terms of success in competition for access to mates and their gametes. The study of sexual selection has provided a rich empirical and theoretical literature addressing the ecological and evolutionary causes and consequences of competition of gametes. However, there remains a bias towards individual, species-specific studies, whilst broader, cross-species comparisons looking for wider-ranging patterns in sexual selection remain uncommon. For instance, we are still some ways from understanding why particular kinds of traits tend to evolve under sexual selection, and under what circumstances. Here we consider sexual selection in the Heteroptera, a sub-order of the Hemiptera, or true bugs. The latter is the largest of the hemimetabolous insect orders, whilst the Heteroptera itself comprises some 40,000-plus described species. We focus on four key sexual signaling modes found in the Heteroptera: chemical signals, acoustic signaling via stridulation, vibrational (substrate) signaling, and finally tactile signaling (antennation). We compare how these modes vary across broad habitat types and provide a review of each type of signal. We ask how we might move towards a more predictive theory of sexual selection, that links mechanisms and targets of sexual selection to various ecologies.
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Gourevitch , E H Z & Shuker , D M 2021 , ' Environmental correlates of sexual signaling in the Heteroptera : a prospective study ' , Insect , vol. 12 , no. 12 , 1079 . https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12121079
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Insect
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12121079
ISSN
2075-4450
Type
Journal item
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Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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EG is supported by a School of Biology, University of St Andrews PhD Studentship.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/24443

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