Antagonistic pleiotropy in species with separate sexes, and the maintenance of genetic variation in life-history traits and fitness.

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Antagonistic pleiotropy (AP)-where alleles of a gene increase some components of fitness at a cost to others-can generate balancing selection, and contribute to the maintenance of genetic variation in fitness traits, such as survival, fecundity, fertility, and mate competition. Previous theory suggests that AP is unlikely to maintain variation unless antagonistic selection is strong, or AP alleles exhibit...

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