Fitness consequences of artificial selection on relative male genital size

Within species, there tends to be a tight relationship between genital size and body size, suggesting strong stabilizing selection. Here, Booksmythe et al.artificially select relative genital size in mosquitofish and find that novel genital size-body size combinations do not lead to expected fitness...

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Autores principales: Isobel Booksmythe, Megan L. Head, J. Scott Keogh, Michael D. Jennions
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2016
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Sumario:Within species, there tends to be a tight relationship between genital size and body size, suggesting strong stabilizing selection. Here, Booksmythe et al.artificially select relative genital size in mosquitofish and find that novel genital size-body size combinations do not lead to expected fitness reductions.