Host Shifts, the Evolution of Communication, and Speciation in the Enchenopa binotata Species Complex of Treehoppers

• Published in: Specialization, Speciation, and Radiation p. 88
• Main Authors: Hunt, Randy E, RodrÍGuez, Rafael L, Cocroft, Reginald B
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of California Press 04.12.2007
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Animal behavior; Animal communication; Animal social behavior; Animals; Assortative mating; behavioral isolation; Behavioral sciences; Biological evolution; Biological sciences; Biology; Communications; Enchenopa binotata; Entomology; Ethology; Evolution; Evolutionary Biology; Evolutionary processes; Evolutionary studies; Female animals; Host plants; host shifts; Insect communication; Male animals; Mating behavior; natural selection; Parasite hosts; Parasitology; Plant Ecology; plant-feeding insects; Semiotics; sexual communication; sexual selection; Signals; Social sciences; Speciation; sympatric speciation; treehoppers; Zoology
• ISBN: 9780520251328; 0520251326
• DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520251328.003.0007

Speciation in animals is promoted by the evolution of behavioral differences that reduce attraction, mating, and fertilization between individuals in diverging populations (Mayr 1963; West-Eberhard 1983; Eberhard 1985, 1994, 1996; Coyne and Orr 2004). Behavioral traits involved in communication between the sexes often provide the most immediate contributions to reproductive isolation (Blair 1955; Claridge 1990; Ryan and Rand 1993; Bridle and Ritchie 2001; Gerhardt and Huber 2002; Kirkpatrick and Ravigné 2002). Consequently, identifying the evolutionary forces that lead to changes in sexual communication is necessary to understand the evolution of behavioral isolation and its contribution to divergence and speciation. The