Genetic architecture of sensory exploitation: QTL mapping of female and male receiver traits in an acoustic moth.

Abstract excerpt

The evolution of extravagant sexual traits by sensory exploitation occurs if males incidentally evolve features that stimulate females owing to a pre-existing environmental response that arose in the context of natural selection. The sensory exploitation process is thus expected to leave a specific genetic imprint, a pleiotropic control of the original environmental response and the novel sexual response in...

Topics

• Animals
• Behavior, Animal
• Female
• Genotype
• Male
• Moths
• Phenotype
• Quantitative Trait Loci