ArticleEvolution letters2021
Selection in males purges the mutation load on female fitness.
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- Sex-specific inbreeding depression: A meta-analysis.Ecology letters · 2022Pooled it
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- Sex-specific viability effects of mutations in Drosophila melanogaster.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2024Article
- Heatwaves are detrimental to fertility in the viviparous tsetse fly.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Heat stress reveals a fertility debt owing to postcopulatory sexual selection.Evolution letters · 2024Article
- Male harm suppresses female fitness, affecting the dynamics of adaptation and evolutionary rescue.Evolution letters · 2024Article
- Increased male investment in sperm competition results in reduced maintenance of gametes.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- Genomic evidence that a sexually selected trait captures genome-wide variation and facilitates the purging of genetic load.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
- How much does the unguarded X contribute to sex differences in life span?Evolution letters · 2022Article
- The stagnation paradox: the ever-improving but (more or less) stationary population fitness.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Direct and indirect effects of male genital elaboration in female seed beetles.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- The genetic architecture of sexual dimorphism in the mossProceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
Theory predicts that the ability of selection and recombination to purge mutation load is enhanced if selection against deleterious genetic variants operates more strongly in males than females. However, direct empirical support for this tenet is limited, in part because traditional quantitative genetic approaches allow dominance and intermediate-frequency polymorphisms to obscure the effects of the many rare and partially recessive deleterious alleles that make up the main part of a population's mutation load. Here, we exposed the partially recessive genetic load of a population of
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