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Reproductive behaviour evolves rapidly when intralocus sexual conflict is removed.
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- Mixed evidence for intralocus sexual conflict from male-limited selection in Drosophila melanogaster.The Journal of heredity · 2026Article
- Sex-specific viability effects of mutations in Drosophila melanogaster.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2024Article
- On the resolution of sexual conflict over shared traits.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Origin of Sex-Biased Mental Disorders: An Evolutionary Perspective.Journal of molecular evolution · 2021Review
- The search for sexually antagonistic genes: Practical insights from studies of local adaptation and statistical genomics.Evolution letters · 2020Article
- Intergenerational paternal effect of adult density inEcology and evolution · 2019Article
- Building a new research framework for social evolution: intralocus caste antagonism.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2018Review
- Contrasting effects of intralocus sexual conflict on sexually antagonistic coevolution.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
- Sex-biased gene expression and sexual conflict throughout development.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2014Review
- Evolution of mate-harm, longevity and behaviour in male fruit flies subjected to different levels of interlocus conflict.BMC evolutionary biology · 2013Article
- Two sexes, one genome: the evolutionary dynamics of intralocus sexual conflict.Ecology and evolution · 2013Article
- Male-limited evolution suggests no extant intralocus sexual conflict over the sexually dimorphic cuticular hydrocarbons of Drosophila melanogaster.Journal of genetics · 2011Article
- Intra-locus sexual conflict and sexually antagonistic genetic variation in hermaphroditic animals.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2011Review
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Abstract
backgroundIntralocus sexual conflict can inhibit the evolution of each sex towards its own fitness optimum. In a previous study, we confirmed this prediction through the experimental removal of female selection pressures in Drosophila melanogaster, achieved by limiting the expression of all major chromosomes to males. Compared to the control populations (C(1-4)) where the genomes are exposed to selection in both sexes, the populations with male-limited genomes (ML(1-4)) showed rapid increases in male fitness, whereas the fitness of females expressing ML-evolved chromosomes decreased. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL
findingsHere we examine the behavioural phenotype underlying this sexual antagonism. We show that males expressing the ML genomes have a reduced courtship level but acquire the same number of matings. On the other hand, our data suggest that females expressing the ML genomes had reduced attractiveness, stimulating a lower rate of courtship from males. Moreover, females expressing ML genomes tend to display reduced yeast-feeding behaviour, which is probably linked to the reduction of their fecundity. CONCLUSION/SIGNIFICANCE: These results suggest that reproductive behaviour is shaped by opposing selection on males and females, and that loci influencing attractiveness and foraging were polymorphic for alleles with sexually antagonistic expression patterns prior to ML selection. Hence, intralocus sexual conflict appears to play a role in the evolution of a wide range of fitness-related traits and may be a powerful mechanism for the maintenance of genetic variation in fitness.
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