Natural selection increases female fitness by reversing the exaggeration of a male sexually selected trait

Natural and sexual selection can be in opposition favouring different trait sizes, but disentangling these processes empirically is difficult. Here Okada et al. show that predation on males shifts the balance of selection in experimentally evolving beetle populations, disfavoring a sexually-selected...

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Auteurs principaux: Kensuke Okada, Masako Katsuki, Manmohan D. Sharma, Katsuya Kiyose, Tomokazu Seko, Yasukazu Okada, Alastair J. Wilson, David J. Hosken
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Langue:EN
Publié: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/b7542201cb5e48e3993ff06ad44f4f49
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