ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2014
Is sexual conflict an "engine of speciation"?
Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.
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- Temperature can reverse sexual conflict, facilitating population growth.Evolution letters · 2025Article
- Sex-specific expression of circadian rhythms enables allochronic speciation.Evolution letters · 2025Article
- Mating environments mediate the evolution of behavioral isolation during ecological speciation.Evolution letters · 2024Article
- Thermal phenotypic plasticity of pre- and post-copulatory male harm buffers sexual conflict in wildeLife · 2023Article
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- The Importance of Gene Duplication and Domain Repeat Expansion for the Function and Evolution of Fertilization Proteins.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Review
- Sexual conflict in a changing environment.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2021Article
- Metapopulation structure modulates sexual antagonism.Evolution letters · 2021Article
- Direct and indirect effects of male genital elaboration in female seed beetles.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Juvenile diet quality and intensity of sexual conflict in the mite Sancassania berlesei.BMC evolutionary biology · 2020Article
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- Sex matters: Otolith shape and genomic variation in deacon rockfish (Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Sexual conflict and intrasexual polymorphism promote assortative mating and halt population differentiation.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Sexual selection, body mass and molecular evolution interact to predict diversification in birds.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Sexual selection, phenotypic plasticity and female reproductive output.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Endless forms of sexual selection.PeerJ · 2019Article
- Sperm competition as an under-appreciated factor in domestication.Biology letters · 2018Article
- Interspecific competition, hybridization, and reproductive isolation in secondary contact: missing perspectives on males and females.Current zoology · 2018Article
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- Evidence of Adaptive Evolution and Relaxed Constraints in Sex-Biased Genes of South American and West Indies Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae).Genome biology and evolution · 2018Article
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Abstract
At the end of the last century, sexual conflict was identified as a powerful engine of speciation, potentially even more important than ecological selection. Earlier work that followed--experimental, comparative, and mathematical--provided strong initial support for this assertion. However, as the field matures, both the power of sexual conflict and constraints on the evolution of reproductive isolation as driven by sexual conflict are becoming better understood. From theoretical studies, we now know that speciation is only one of several possible evolutionary outcomes of sexual conflict. In line with these predictions, both experimental evolution studies and comparative analyses of fertilization proteins and of species richness show that sexual conflict leads to, or is associated with, reproductive isolation and speciation in some cases but not in others. Increased genetic variation (especially in females) without reproductive isolation is an underappreciated consequence of sexually antagonistic selection.
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