The reliability of environmental cues shape learning and selection against deleterious alleles in seed beetles.

Abstract excerpt

Behavioural plasticity can play a key role in evolution by either facilitating or impeding genetic adaptation. The latter occurs when behaviours mitigate selection pressures that otherwise would target associated traits. Therefore, environments that facilitate adaptive behavioural plasticity could relax the strength of natural selection, but experimental evidence for this prediction remains scarce. Here, we first...

Topics

• Animals
• Coleoptera
• Female
• Cues
• Selection, Genetic
• Alleles
• Learning