Teleogryllus oceanicus wing bud transcriptome

In the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus, mutant males with feminised forewings (flatwings) recently appeared on two Hawaiian islands. Mutant males are obligately silenced, which protects them from attack by an acoustically-orienting parasitoid. Here, we focused on gene expression differences between flatwing and normal males on an early-developing wing stage (wing buds).

在田野蟋蟀（Teleogryllus oceanicus）这一物种中，携带雌性化前翅的突变雄性个体（平翅型，flatwings）近期在两个夏威夷群岛被观测到。此类突变雄性完全无法发声，这一特性使其免受声学定向寄生蜂的攻击。本研究聚焦于发育早期翅阶段（翅芽，wing buds）的平翅型与正常雄性个体之间的基因表达差异。