Heritability of a sexually selected character expressed in both sexes.

doi:10.1038/374158a0

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Heritability of a sexually selected character expressed in both sexes.

Nature - 9 Mar 1995

Wilcockson R W, Crean C S, Day T H

Abstract excerpt

Sexual selection is thought to be responsible for the evolution of exaggerated male characters and of female mate preferences. Evolutionary mechanisms driven by an advantage to the progeny are only effective if the preferred character has a large genetic component of variance; in most systems in...

Topics

Animals
Biological Evolution
Body Constitution
Crosses, Genetic
Diptera
Female
Genetic Variation
Male
Selection, Genetic
Sex Characteristics

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