大壁虎两种群的求偶鸣叫变异

大壁虎Gekko gecko俗称蛤蚧,可分为黑蛤蚧和红蛤蚧.黑蛤蚧主要分布在中国的广东、广西和越南的东北部,而红蛤蚧则主要分布在东南亚地区,包括越南南部、老挝、泰国等.本文对这两种蛤蚧种群的求偶鸣叫进行了定性和定量研究.经比较分析结果表明这两个种群蛤蚧的求偶鸣叫声学特征存在明显差异.大壁虎的求偶鸣叫由一系列的音节组成,可分为3段:第一段由0～5个脉冲串组成,每个脉冲串含多个脉冲(7～10);第二段由4～10个双音节组成;第三段由1～3个单音节组成,只有红蛤蚧的求偶鸣叫具有第三段.此外,黑蛤蚧和红蛤蚧的求偶鸣叫差异也表现在第二段,即双音节的结构上.黑蛤蚧的双音节呈现出复杂的频率调节模式,且第一音节和第二音节之间有明显的沉默间隔.红蛤蚧的求偶鸣叫很少或基本没有频率调节,第一音节和第二音节之间没有沉默间隔.结合这两种蛤蚧在形态、染色体和基因结构方面的显著差异,推测传统认为的大壁虎可能由两个不同的物种以及一个亚种组成.

Disparities of Court Call Sequences between Red and Black Tokays

Tokay geckos (Gekko gecko) can be divided into the black tokay and the red tokay.The black tokay distributes in Guangxi and Guangdong of China,and northeastern Vietnam,while the red tokay distributes in Southeast Asia such as southern Vietnam,Laos,Thailand and so on.The estrous calls between the two populations were qualitative and quantitative researched.The results showed by compare analysis that there were obvious differences on the acoustic characteristics of estrous calls between black tokay and red to...