The role of courtship song in female mate choice in South American Cactophilic Drosophila.

ABSTRACT: Courtship songs have undergone a spectacular diversification in the Drosophila buzzatii cluster. Accordingly, it has been suggested that sexual selection has played a significant role in promoting rapid diversification, reproductive isolation and speciation. However, there is no direct evidence (i.e., song playback experiments with wingless males) supporting this tenet. Moreover, several studies have showed that the courtship song in the genus Drosophila is not always used in female mate choice decisions, nor plays the same role when it is taken into account. In this vein, we use an approach that combines manipulative and playback experiments to explore the importance and the role of courtship song in female mate choice in four species of the D. buzzatii cluster and one species of the clos

SUBMITTER: Iglesias PP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5414974 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature