Light alters calling-song characteristics in crickets.

ABSTRACT: Communication is crucial for mate choice and thus for the survival and fitness of most species. In the cricket, females choose males according to their calling-song attractiveness and, exhibiting positive phonotaxis, they approach the chosen male. Light has been widely reported to induce changes in crickets' daily activity patterns, including the males' stridulation behavior. It had remained unknown, however, whether light also affects the calling-song properties and thus may consequently also alter female choice. Here, we present a novel semi-automated process, enabling the analysis of calling-song properties in an extremely large sample size of recording sections from males subjected to lifelong light:dark (LD) or constant light (LL) conditions. Our findings revealed that the LD calling

SUBMITTER: Levy K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11928050 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature