Mating asymmetry and the direction of evolution in the Hawaiian cricket genus Laupala

Author:

Shaw, Kerry L., Lugo, Ezequiel

Title:

Mating asymmetry and the direction of evolution in the Hawaiian cricket genus Laupala

Periodical:

Molecular Ecology

Year:

2001

Volume:

10

Pages:

751-759

Subject:

Crickets Rain forests

Summary:

Laupala are flightless crickets that are entirely endemic to the mid-elevation rain forests of the Hawaiian archipelago. Made up of three species that are dark, slow-singing crickets that dwell on the forest floor are the L. Makaio, L. nigra, and the L. paranigra. All three are allopatric with respect to one another, with distribution that is restricted to the windward slopes of their respective volcanoes on the island of Hawaii -- Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea, and Kilauea. Here, a mating asymmetry of this endemic Hawaiian insect that is characterized by an elaborate mating system of the cricket genus, Laupala Otte, is examined.

Label:

Insects

URL:

http://cletus.uhh.hawaii.edu:2074/10.1046/j.1365-294x.2001.01219.x

Date:

March 2001

Collection:

Periodicals