ArticleEcology and evolution2017
Sexual selection constrains the body mass of male but not female mice.
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- Musculoskeletal mass and shape are correlated with competitive ability in male house mice (The Journal of experimental biology · 2020Article
- A disparity between locomotor economy and territory-holding ability in male house mice.The Journal of experimental biology · 2017Article
- Sexual selection constrains the body mass of male but not female mice.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
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Abstract
Sexual size dimorphism results when female and male body size is influenced differently by natural and sexual selection. Typically, in polygynous species larger male body size is thought to be favored in competition for mates and constraints on maximal body size are due to countervailing natural selection on either sex; however, it has been postulated that sexual selection itself may result in stabilizing selection at an optimal mass. Here we test this hypothesis by retrospectively assessing the influence of body mass, one metric of body size, on the fitness of 113 wild-derived house mice
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