Article
Origins of female genital diversity: Predation risk and lock-and-key explain rapid divergence during an adaptive radiation.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Sept 2015
Anderson Christopher M, Langerhans R Brian
Abstract excerpt
The study of male genital diversity has long overshadowed evolutionary inquiry of female genitalia, despite its nontrivial diversity. Here, we identify four nonmutually exclusive mechanisms that could lead to genital divergence in females, and potentially generate patterns of correlated male-female genital evolution: (1) ecological variation alters the context of sexual selection ("ecology hypothesis"), (2)...
Topics
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Bahamas
- Biological Evolution
- Cyprinodontiformes
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Genitalia, Female
- Male
- Mating Preference, Animal
- Predatory Behavior