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What’s in a song? Female bushcrickets discriminate against the song of older males

1995; Royal Society; Volume: 262; Issue: 1363 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rspb.1995.0171

1471-2954

Michael G. Ritchie, Iain D. Couzin, Wayne A. Snedden,

Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior

Restricted accessMoreSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Ritchie Michael G. , Couzin Iain and Snedden W. Andrew 1995What's in a song? Female bushcrickets discriminate against the song of older malesProc. R. Soc. Lond. B.26221–27http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1995.0171SectionRestricted accessArticleWhat's in a song? Female bushcrickets discriminate against the song of older males Michael G. Ritchie Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , Iain Couzin Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and W. Andrew Snedden Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Michael G. Ritchie Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed , Iain Couzin Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed and W. Andrew Snedden Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Published:23 October 1995https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1995.0171AbstractThe striking songs of insects such as bushcrickets have traditionally been interpreted as species recognition signals. If this is so, their information content should be relatively simple. Females should discriminate against atypical songs, but not between common differences between males. Alternatively, female preference may have evolved by sexual selection with variation between males providing reliable cues on which females discriminate among potential mates, or sensory biases may predispose females towards a particular form of song. We examined how the calling song of the bushcricket Ephippiger ephippiger varies in natural populations. Song structure changes over the course of a season, reflecting wear of the stridulatory apparatus. Males vary substantially in the rate at which they show ageing effects. Superimposed on this are consistent differences between males and temperature effects. This sexual signal therefore contains potentially reliable cues which females could use during mate choice. When presented with artificial songs that reproduce some of the song variants associated with older males, females show extremely strong preferences for unmanipulated song, typical of young males. These aspects of female preference will exert sexual selection on males, whether they originate for adaptive or arbitrary reasons.FootnotesThis text was harvested from a scanned image of the original document using optical character recognition (OCR) software. As such, it may contain errors. Please contact the Royal Society if you find an error you would like to see corrected. Mathematical notations produced through Infty OCR. 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