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Desjonquères C, Speck B, Seidita S, Cirino LA, Escalante I, Sergi C, Maliszewski J, Wiese C, Hoebel G, Bailey NW, Rodríguez RL. Social Plasticity Enhances Signal-Preference Codivergence. Am Nat 2023; 202:818-829. [PMID: 38033176 DOI: 10.1086/726786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2023]
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AbstractThe social environment is often the most dynamic and fitness-relevant environment animals experience. Here we tested whether plasticity arising from variation in social environments can promote signal-preference divergence-a key prediction of recent speciation theory but one that has proven difficult to test in natural systems. Interactions in mixed social aggregations could reduce, create, or enhance signal-preference differences. In the latter case, social plasticity could establish or increase assortative mating. We tested this by rearing two recently diverged species of Enchenopa treehoppers-sap-feeding insects that communicate with plant-borne vibrational signals-in treatments consisting of mixed-species versus own-species aggregations. Social experience with heterospecifics (in the mixed-species treatment) resulted in enhanced signal-preference species differences. For one of the two species, we tested but found no differences in the plastic response between sympatric and allopatric sites, suggesting the absence of reinforcement in the signals and preferences and their plastic response. Our results support the hypothesis that social plasticity can create or enhance signal-preference differences and that this might occur in the absence of long-term selection against hybridization on plastic responses themselves. Such social plasticity may facilitate rapid bursts of diversification.
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Type and amount of social experience influences individual face learning in paper wasps. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-022-03257-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Escalante I, Kellner JR, Rodríguez RL, Desjonquères C. A female mimic signal type in the vibrational repertoire of male Enchenopa treehoppers. BEHAVIOUR 2022. [DOI: 10.1163/1568539x-bja10181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Animals vary in the complexity and size of the signal repertoire used in communication. Often, these behavioural repertoires include multiple signal types for the same process, for instance, courtship. In Enchenopa treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae) mate-searching males produce plant-borne vibrational advertisement signals. Receptive females then respond to males with their own signals. Here we describe an additional signal type in the repertoire of these males. We collected nymphs in Wisconsin, USA, and recorded the spontaneous signalling bouts of adult males and duetting signals of females using laser vibrometry. Two-thirds of males produced the additional signal type, which differed in temporal and spectral features from the main male advertisement signals, whilst resembling female duetting signals in placement and acoustic features. Our findings suggest that this might be a female mimic signal. Overall, our findings highlight the diversity in the behavioural repertoire that animals may use for reproduction.
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- Ignacio Escalante
- Behavioral and Molecular Ecology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, 3209 N Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
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- Behavioral and Molecular Ecology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, 3209 N Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
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- Behavioral and Molecular Ecology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, 3209 N Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
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- Behavioral and Molecular Ecology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, 3209 N Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
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de Reus K, Soma M, Anichini M, Gamba M, de Heer Kloots M, Lense M, Bruno JH, Trainor L, Ravignani A. Rhythm in dyadic interactions. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2021; 376:20200337. [PMID: 34420383 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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This review paper discusses rhythmic interactions and distinguishes them from non-rhythmic interactions. We report on communicative behaviours in social and sexual contexts, as found in dyads of humans, non-human primates, non-primate mammals, birds, anurans and insects. We discuss observed instances of rhythm in dyadic interactions, identify knowledge gaps and propose suggestions for future research. We find that most studies on rhythmicity in interactive signals mainly focus on one modality (acoustic or visual) and we suggest more work should be performed on multimodal signals. Although the social functions of interactive rhythms have been fairly well described, developmental research on rhythms used to regulate social interactions is still lacking. Future work should also focus on identifying the exact timing mechanisms involved. Rhythmic signalling behaviours are widespread and critical in regulating social interactions across taxa, but many questions remain unexplored. A multidisciplinary, comparative cross-species approach may help provide answers. This article is part of the theme issue 'Synchrony and rhythm interaction: from the brain to behavioural ecology'.
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- Koen de Reus
- Comparative Bioacoustics Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.,Artificial Intelligence Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study, 'Brain' Research Area, Delmenhorst, Germany.,Division of Animal Physiology and Behaviour, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Comparative Bioacoustics Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Desjonquères C, Maliszewski J, Rodríguez RL. Juvenile social experience and practice have a switch-like influence on adult mate preferences in an insect. Evolution 2021; 75:1106-1116. [PMID: 33491177 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2020] [Revised: 11/18/2020] [Accepted: 12/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Social causes of variation in animal communication systems have important evolutionary consequences, including speciation. The relevance of these effects depends on how widespread they are among animals. There is evidence for such effects not only in birds and mammals, but also frogs and some insects and spiders. Here, we analyze the social ontogeny of adult mate preferences in an insect, Enchenopa treehoppers. In these communal plant-feeding insects, individuals reared in isolation or in groups differ in their mate preferences, and the group-reared phenotype can be rescued by playbacks to isolation-reared individuals. We ask about the relative role of signaling experience and signaling practice during ontogeny on the development of adult mating preferences in Enchenopa females. Taking advantage of variation in the signal experience and signaling practice of isolation-reared individuals, we find switch-like effects for experience and practice on female mate preference phenotypes, with individuals having some experience and practice as juveniles best rescuing the group-reared preference phenotype. We discuss how understanding the nature and distribution of social-ontogenetic causes of variation in mate preferences and other sexual traits will bring new insights into how within- and between-population variation influences the evolution of communication systems.
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- Camille Desjonquères
- Behavioral & Molecular Ecology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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- Behavioral & Molecular Ecology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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- Behavioral & Molecular Ecology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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Desjonquères C, Speck B, Rodríguez RL. Signalling interactions during ontogeny are a cause of social plasticity in Enchenopa treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae). Behav Processes 2019; 166:103887. [DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2019.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2019] [Revised: 06/10/2019] [Accepted: 06/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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