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Male harm offsets the demographic benefits of good genes.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 7 Mar 2023

Flintham Ewan O, Savolainen Vincent, Mullon Charles

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Sexual conflict can arise when males evolve traits that improve their mating success but in doing so harm females. By reducing female fitness, male harm can diminish offspring production in a population and even drive extinction. Current theory on harm is based on the assumption that an individual's phenotype is solely determined by its genotype. But the expression of most sexually selected traits is also...

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PMID: 36862690
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2211668120
PMCID: PMC10013744

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