Sexual signal loss : the link between behaviour and rapid evolutionary dynamics in a field cricket

N.W.B. received funding from Natural Environment Research Council fellowships (NE/G014906/1 and NE/L011255/1). M.Z. is supported by grants from the US National Science Foundation and by the University of Minnesota. Data used in these analyses (counts of crickets in survey plots and distances from playback speakers) have been placed in the Dryad Digital Repository and are accessible at https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.bb384 (Zuk et al., 2018).1. Sexual signals may be acquired or lost over evolutionary time, and are tempered in their exaggeration by natural selection. 2. In the Pacific field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus, a mutation (“flatwing”) causing loss of the sexual signal, the song, spread in