Reducing mutation load through sexual selection on males.

Abstract excerpt

Mutation load is a key parameter in evolutionary theories, but relatively little empirical information exists on the mutation load of populations, or the elimination of this load through selection. We manipulated the opportunity for sexual selection within a mutation accumulation divergence experiment to determine how sexual selection on males affected the accumulation of mutations contributing to sexual and...

Topics

• Animals
• Biological Evolution
• Drosophila
• Female
• Genetic Variation
• Male
• Mating Preference, Animal
• Mutation