Saturday, September 23, 2006

Crickets on Hawaiian Island Develop Silent Wings in Response to Parasites

In only a few generations, the male cricket on Kauai, one of the Hawaiian Islands, underwent a mutation ? a sudden heritable change in its genetic material ? that rendered it incapable of using song, its sexual signal, to attract female crickets, according to a new study by UC Riverside evolutionary biologists.

You can read more about it here.

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