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Spatial environmental complexity mediates sexual conflict and sexual selection in
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- Agent-based modelling reveals feedback loops and non-linearity between mating system evolution and disease dynamics.PloS one · 2025Article
- Thermal phenotypic plasticity of pre- and post-copulatory male harm buffers sexual conflict in wildeLife · 2023Article
- The evolution of sex peptide: sexual conflict, cooperation, and coevolution.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Article
- Sexual conflict in a changing environment.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2021Article
- Heightened condition-dependence of the sexual transcriptome as a function of genetic quality in Drosophila melanogaster head tissue.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Spatial environmental complexity mediates sexual conflict and sexual selection inEcology and evolution · 2019Article
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- Erratum issuedCorrigendum.2020
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Abstract
Sexual selection is an important agent of evolutionary change, but the strength and direction of selection often vary over space and time. One potential source of heterogeneity may lie in the opportunity for male-male and/or male-female interactions imposed by the spatial environment. It has been suggested that increased spatial complexity permits sexual selection to act in a complementary fashion with natural selection (hastening the loss of deleterious alleles and/or promoting the spread of beneficial alleles) via two (not mutually exclusive) pathways. In the first scenario, sexual selection potentially acts more strongly on males in complex environments, allowing males of greater genetic "quality" a greater chance of outcompeting rivals, with benefits manifested indirectly in offspring. In the second scenario, increased spatial complexity reduces opportunities for males to antagonistically harm females, allowing females (especially those of greater potential fecundities) to achieve greater reproductive success (direct fitness benefits). Here, using
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