ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2014
The relationship between sexual selection and sexual conflict.
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- Cognition and Its Shaping Effect on Sexual Conflict: Integrating Biology and Psychology.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2022Review
- Theoretical Reproductive Outcomes of the Sexual Conflict in Humans.Doklady biological sciences : proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Biological sciences sections · 2021Article
- Quantifying variation in female internal genitalia: no evidence for plasticity in response to sexual conflict risk in a seed beetle.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Male genital lobe morphology affects the chance to copulate in Drosophila pachea.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- ThePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
- Direct and indirect selection on mate choice during pollen competition: Effects of male and female sexual traits on offspring performance following two-donor crosses.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2020Article
- Spermathecal variation in temperate Opiliones.Integrative and comparative biology · 2020Article
- Selection in two-sex stage-structured populations: Genetics, demography, and polymorphism.Theoretical population biology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Evolutionary conflicts of interest arise whenever genetically different individuals interact and their routes to fitness maximization differ. Sexual selection favors traits that increase an individual's competitiveness to acquire mates and fertilizations. Sexual conflict occurs if an individual of sex A's relative fitness would increase if it had a "tool" that could alter what an individual of sex B does (including the parental genes transferred), at a cost to B's fitness. This definition clarifies several issues: Conflict is very common and, although it extends outside traits under sexual selection, sexual selection is a ready source of sexual conflict. Sexual conflict and sexual selection should not be presented as alternative explanations for trait evolution. Conflict is closely linked to the concept of a lag load, which is context-dependent and sex-specific. This makes it possible to ask if one sex can "win." We expect higher population fitness if females win.
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