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Mixed evidence for intralocus sexual conflict from male-limited selection in Drosophila melanogaster.
The Journal of heredity - 5 Mar 2026
Thyagarajan Harshavardhan, Sayyed Imran, Baroody Mindy G, Kowal Joshua A, Day Troy, Chippindale Adam K
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Sexual conflict over shared traits-intralocus sexual conflict (IaSC)-may be common and consequential, but experimental tests of its relative magnitude are challenging and limited in number. We use a sex-limited selection experiment, designed to subject haplotypes of Drosophila melanogaster to selection for male fitness without opposing selection acting on female fitness. Importantly, we use three novel base...
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