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dc.contributor.authorSchneider, Will
dc.contributor.authorRutz, Christian
dc.contributor.authorBailey, Nathan William
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-02T15:30:08Z
dc.date.available2024-04-02T15:30:08Z
dc.date.issued2024-03-22
dc.identifier300337435
dc.identifier3a0fdffa-f00e-4028-a052-96e30bd0d0f8
dc.identifier85188527318
dc.identifier.citationSchneider , W , Rutz , C & Bailey , N W 2024 , ' Behavioural plasticity compensates for adaptive loss of cricket song ' , Ecology Letters , vol. 27 , no. 3 , e14404 . https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14404en
dc.identifier.issn1461-023X
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-5187-7417/work/156626121
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-3531-7756/work/156627382
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/29587
dc.descriptionFunding: Funding was provided by UK Natural Environment Research Council grants to N.W.B. (NE/L011255/1, NE/T000619/1) and a University of St Andrews School of Biology PhD studentship to W.T.S.en
dc.description.abstractBehavioural flexibility might help animals cope with costs of genetic variants under selection, promoting genetic adaptation. However, it has proven challenging to experimentally link behavioural flexibility to the predicted compensation of population-level fitness. We tested this prediction using the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus. In Hawaiian populations, a mutation silences males and protects against eavesdropping parasitoids. To examine how the loss of this critical acoustic communication signal impacts offspring production and mate location, we developed a high- resolution, individual-based tracking system for low-light, naturalistic conditions. Offspring production did not differ significantly in replicate silent versus singing populations, and fitness compensation in silent conditions was associated with significantly increased locomotion in both sexes. Our results provide evidence that flexible behaviour can promote genetic adaptation via compensation in reproductive output and suggest that rapid evolution of animal communication systems may be less constrained than previously appreciated.
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dc.format.extent754616
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEcology Lettersen
dc.subjectAdaptationen
dc.subjectBehavioural plasticityen
dc.subjectEvolutionary rescueen
dc.subjectMovement ecologyen
dc.subjectPhenotypic accomodationen
dc.subjectTrait lossen
dc.subjectQL Zoologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccQLen
dc.titleBehavioural plasticity compensates for adaptive loss of cricket songen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorNERCen
dc.contributor.sponsorNERCen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Bioinformatics Uniten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversityen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/ele.14404
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumberNE/L011255/1en
dc.identifier.grantnumberNE/T000619/1en


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