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Insects 2011, 2, 195-209; doi:10.3390/insects2020195 OPEN ACCESS insects ISSN 2075-4450 /journal/insects/ Review Speciation, Divergence, and the Origin of Gryllus rubens: Behavior, Morphology, and Molecules David A. Gray Department of Biology, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330, USA; E-Mail: dave.gray@ Received: 30 March 2011; in revised form: 22 April 2011 / Accepted: 26 April 2011 / Published: 4 May 2011 Abstract: The last 25 years or so has seen a huge resurgence of interest in speciation research. This has coincided with the development and widespread use of new tools in molecular genetics, especially DNA sequencing, to inform ecological and evolutionary questions. Here I review about a decade of work on the sister species of field crickets Gryllus texensis and G. rubens. This work has included analysis of morphology, behavior, and the mitochondrial DNA molecule. The molecular work in particular has dramatically re-shaped my interpretation of the speciational history of these taxa, suggesting that rather than ‘sister’ species we should consider these taxa as ‘mother-daughter’ species with G. rubens derived from within a subset of ancestral G. texensis. Keywords: speciation; crickets; behavioral isolation; phylogeography 1. Introduction The process of speciation remains one the central issues in evolutionary biology. For most of the ca. 1