Many closely related populations are distinguished by variation in sexual signals and this variation is hypothesized to play an important role in reproductive isolation and speciation. Within populations, there is considerable evidence that sexual signals provide information about the incidence and severity of parasite infections, but it remains unclear if variation in parasite communities across space could play a role in initiating or maintaining sexual trait divergence. To test for variation in parasite-associated selection, we compared three barn swallow subspecies with divergent sexual signals. We found that parasite community structure and host tolerance to ecologically similar parasites varied between subspecies. Across subspecies we also found that different parasites were costly in terms of male survival and reproductive success. For each subspecies, the preferred sexual signal(s) were associated with the most costly local parasite(s), indicating that divergent signals are providing relevant information to females about local parasite communities. Across subspecies, the same traits were often associated with different parasites, indicating that parasite-sexual signal links are quite flexible and may evolve relatively quickly. This study provides evidence for (1) variation in parasite communities and (2) different parasite-sexual signal links among three closely related subspecies with divergent sexual signal traits, suggesting that parasites may play an important role in initiating and/or maintaining the divergence of sexual signals among these closely related, yet geographically isolated populations.

Department of Animal Sciences Tel Hai Academic College Upper Galilee 1220800 Israel

Department of Biology Truman State University Kirksville Missouri 63501

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Colorado Boulder Colorado 80309

Department of Ecology Evolution and Behavior University of Minnesota St Paul Minnesota 55108

Department of Zoology Faculty of Science Charles University Prague 128 44 Czech Republic

Institute of Vertebrate Biology Czech Academy of Sciences Brno 60365 Czech Republic

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