ArticleEvolution; international journal of organic evolution2016
Selection on an antagonistic behavioral trait can drive rapid genital coevolution in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides.
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- Quantifying variation in female internal genitalia: no evidence for plasticity in response to sexual conflict risk in a seed beetle.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Multivariate stabilizing sexual selection and the evolution of male and female genital morphology in the red flour beetle.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2020Article
- Rapid divergent coevolution of Sinopotamon freshwater crab genitalia facilitates a burst of species diversification.Integrative zoology · 2020Article
- Alpha shapes: determining 3D shape complexity across morphologically diverse structures.BMC evolutionary biology · 2018Article
- Sexual conflict and the evolution of genitalia: male damselflies remove more sperm when mating with a heterospecific female.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Male and female genital morphology varies widely across many taxa, and even among populations. Disentangling potential sources of selection on genital morphology is problematic because each sex is predicted to respond to adaptations in the other due to reproductive conflicts of interest. To test how variation in this sexual conflict trait relates to variation in genital morphology we used our previously developed artificial selection lines for high and low repeated mating rates. We selected for high and low repeated mating rates using monogamous pairings to eliminate contemporaneous female choice and male-male competition. Male and female genital shape responded rapidly to selection on repeated mating rate. High and low mating rate lines diverged from control lines after only 10 generations of selection. We also detected significant patterns of male and female genital shape coevolution among selection regimes. We argue that because our selection lines differ in sexual conflict, these results support the hypothesis that sexually antagonistic coevolution can drive the rapid divergence of genital morphology. The greatest divergence in morphology corresponded with lines in which the resolution of sexual conflict over mating rate was biased in favor of male interests.
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