Trichome

Authors
Kathryn E Boul, W Chris Funk, Catherine R Darst, David C Cannatella, Michael J Ryan
Publication date
2007/2/7
Journal
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Volume
274
Issue
1608
Pages
399-406
Publisher
The Royal Society
Description
One proposed mechanism of speciation is divergent sexual selection, whereby divergence in female preferences and male signals results in behavioural isolation. Despite the appeal of this hypothesis, evidence for it remains inconclusive. Here, we present several lines of evidence that sexual selection is driving behavioural isolation and speciation among populations of an Amazonian frog (Physalaemus petersi). First, sexual selection has promoted divergence in male mating calls and female preferences for calls between neighbouring populations, resulting in strong behavioural isolation. Second, phylogenetic analysis indicates that populations have become fixed for alternative call types several times throughout the species' range, and coalescent analysis rejects genetic drift as a cause for this pattern, suggesting that this divergence is due to selection. Finally, gene flow estimated with microsatellite loci is an …
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