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Acoustic signatures in Mexican cavefish populations inhabiting different caves

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  • Carole Hyacinthe
  • Joël Attia
  • Elisa Schutz
  • Lény Lego
  • Didier Casane
  • Sylvie Rétaux

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Complex patterns of acoustic communication exist throughout the animal kingdom, including underwater. The river-dwelling and the Pachón cave-adapted morphotypes of the fish Astyanax mexicanus are soniferous and share a repertoire of sounds. Their function and significance is mostly unknown. Here, we explored whether and how sounds produced by blind cavefishes inhabiting different Mexican caves may vary. We compared “Clicks” and “Serial Clicks” produced by cavefish in six different caves distributed in three mountain ranges in Mexico. We also sampled laboratory-bred cavefish lines originating from four of these caves. Sounds were extracted and analyzed using both a manual method and a machine learning-based automation tool developed in-house. Multi-parametric analyses suggest wild cave-specific acoustic signatures, or “accents”. An acoustic code also existed in laboratory cavefish lines, suggesting a genetic basis for the evolution of this trait. The variations in acoustic parameters between caves of origin did not seem related to fish phenotypes, phylogeography or ecological conditions. We propose that the evolution of such acoustic signatures would progressively lead to the differentiation of local accents that may prevent interbreeding and thus contribute to speciation.

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  • Carole Hyacinthe & Joël Attia & Elisa Schutz & Lény Lego & Didier Casane & Sylvie Rétaux, 2023. "Acoustic signatures in Mexican cavefish populations inhabiting different caves," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(8), pages 1-13, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0289574
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289574
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