Article
Sexual selection can resolve sex-linked sexual antagonism.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 7 Oct 2005
Albert Arianne Y K, Otto Sarah P
Abstract excerpt
Sexual selection is a potent evolutionary force. However, very few models have considered the evolution of female preferences for traits expressed in both sexes. Here we explore how female preferences coevolve with sexually antagonistic traits, which involve alleles that are beneficial to one sex but harmful to the other. We show that with a sexually antagonistic trait on the X chromosome (males XY, females XX),...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Female
- Genetic Linkage
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Male
- Mathematics
- Models, Genetic
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Reproduction
- Selection, Genetic