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A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Evolution of the Stridulatory Apparatus in True Crickets (Orthoptera, Grylloidea)
Author(s) -
DesutterGrandcolas Laure
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
cladistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.323
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1096-0031
pISSN - 0748-3007
DOI - 10.1111/j.1096-0031.1997.tb00244.x
Subject(s) - cricket , biology , phylogenetic tree , orthoptera , clade , monophyly , evolutionary biology , cladistics , phylogenetic comparative methods , phylogenetics , zoology , gene , biochemistry
The stridulatory apparatus (or stridulum) is currently assumed ancestral in crickets. Models of its subsequent evolution consider only one modality of evolutionary change: the stridulum would have been progressively lost in multiple cricket lineages. A phylogenetic test of this hypothesis is presented here. The morpho‐functional types of stridulum have been optimized on the cladistic phylogenies of two monophyletic cricket clades, and parsimonious evolutionary scenarios of the evolution of the stridulum in these clades have been derived. The phylogenetic patterns thus obtained support the hypothesis that the stridulum has been lost several times convergently in crickets. They indicate, however, that the loss of the stridulum could be reversible, and that several modalities of evolutionary change exist for the stridulum. Phylogenetic analysis thus reveals an unsuspected complexity in the evolution of acoustic communication in crickets.