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Genetics of behavioural and morphological differences between parapatric subspecies of Chorthippus parallelus (Orthoptera: Acrididae)
Authors:R K BUTLIN  G M HEWITT
Institution:School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ
Abstract:The grasshoppers Chorthippus parallelus parallelus and C. p. erythropus form a narrow hybrid zone in the Pyrenees. They differ in several characters of the pattern and structure of male stridulation and in the morphology of the stridulatory file. These characters are considered to be involved in the species' mate recognition system.
Crosses have been made between a Pyrenean C. p. erythropus population and two C. p. parallelus populations, one in the Pyrenees and one in the Massif Central. Reciprocal Fls and backcrosses have been examined for a set of stridulation and associated morphological characters. The crosses confirm that the subspecific differences have a genetic basis and suggest that they are polygenically determined. However the mode of inheritance is not simple. There is evidence for dominance and epistatic effects and for sex-linkage or maternal effects. Genetic correlations exist between some pairs of characters in the backcrosses.
These results are discussed in the context of the hybrid zone and in relation to the general problem of the evolutionary divergence of mate recognition systems.
Keywords:Hybrid zone  reproductive isolation  mating behaviour              Chorthippus-            quantitative genetics
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