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Genomic evidence that a sexually selected trait captures genome-wide variation and facilitates the purging of genetic load.
Nature ecology & evolution - 1 Sept 2022
Parrett Jonathan M, Chmielewski Sebastian, Aydogdu Eylem, Łukasiewicz Aleksandra, Rombauts Stephane, Szubert-Kruszyńska Agnieszka, Babik Wiesław, Konczal Mateusz, Radwan Jacek
Abstract excerpt
The evolution of costly traits such as deer antlers and peacock trains, which drove the formation of Darwinian sexual selection theory, has been suggested to both reflect and affect patterns of genetic variance across the genome, but direct tests are missing. Here, we used an evolve and resequence approach to reveal patterns of genome-wide diversity associated with the expression of a sexually selected weapon...
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