EVOLUTION BY FISHERIAN SEXUAL SELECTION IN DIPLOIDS
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Evolution by fisherian sexual selection in diploids.
Most models of Fisherian sexual selection assume haploidy. However, analytical models that focus on dynamics near fixation boundaries and simulations show that the resulting behavior depends on ploidy. Here we model sexual selection in a diploid to characterize behaviour away from fixation boundaries. The model assumes two di-allelic loci, a male-limited trait locus subject to viability selecti...
متن کاملEvolution: Radiotracking Sexual Selection
Why are members of one sex bigger than those of the other? A new study in which male giant weta were radiotracked found that smaller, longer legged males win the race to inseminate females.
متن کاملSexual selection and genital evolution.
Genitalia are conspicuously variable, even in closely related taxa that are otherwise morphologically very similar. Explaining genital diversity is a longstanding problem that is attracting renewed interest from evolutionary biologists. New studies provide ever more compelling evidence that sexual selection is important in driving genital divergence. Importantly, several studies now link variat...
متن کاملCanine Evolution in Sabretoothed Carnivores: Natural Selection or Sexual Selection?
The remarkable elongated upper canines of extinct sabretoothed carnivorous mammals have been the subject of considerable speculation on their adaptive function, but the absence of living analogues prevents any direct inference about their evolution. We analysed scaling relationships of the upper canines of 20 sabretoothed feliform carnivores (Nimravidae, Barbourofelidae, Machairodontinae), repr...
متن کاملSexual Selection, Social Competition, and Evolution*
Social behavior holds a special position among natural phenomena in relation to the Darwinian theory of organic evolution. When individuals of the same species live in close proximity they compete directly for essential resources. And intraspecific reproductive competition is the cornerstone of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Thus the drama of what G. E. Hutchinson (1965) referred...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Evolution
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0014-3820,1558-5646
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00606.x