SynthesiseLife2021
Stronger net selection on males across animals.
Synthesis in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
- Unexpectedly low recombination rates and presence of hotspots in termite genomes.Genome research · 2025Article
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- Evolution of sexual size dimorphism in tetrapods is driven by varying patterns of sex-specific selection on size.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- The role of condition on sexual selection in the seed bugEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Pattern of Evolution of Male and Female Reproductive Proteins in Seed Beetles.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Article
- On the resolution of sexual conflict over shared traits.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Male harm suppresses female fitness, affecting the dynamics of adaptation and evolutionary rescue.Evolution letters · 2024Article
- Sex-specific life-history strategies among immature jumping spiders: Differences in body parameters and behavior.Current zoology · 2023Article
- Thermal phenotypic plasticity of pre- and post-copulatory male harm buffers sexual conflict in wildeLife · 2023Article
- Increased male investment in sperm competition results in reduced maintenance of gametes.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- Sexual selection moderates heat stress response in males and females.Functional ecology · 2022Article
- Diet quality impairs male and female reproductive performance and affects the opportunity for selection in an insect model.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Metabolism as a screenwriter in the female-male coevolutionary play.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Genomic evidence that a sexually selected trait captures genome-wide variation and facilitates the purging of genetic load.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
- Experimental sexual selection reveals rapid evolutionary divergence in sex-specific transcriptomes and their interactions following mating.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Sexual selection is considered the major driver for the evolution of sex differences. However, the eco-evolutionary dynamics of sexual selection and their role for a population's adaptive potential to respond to environmental change have only recently been explored. Theory predicts that sexual selection promotes adaptation at a low demographic cost only if sexual selection is aligned with natural selection and if net selection is stronger on males compared to females. We used a comparative approach to show that net selection is indeed stronger in males and provide preliminary support that this sex bias is associated with sexual selection. Given that both sexes share the vast majority of their genes, our findings corroborate the notion that the genome is often confronted with a more stressful environment when expressed in males. Collectively, our study supports one of the long-standing key assumptions required for sexual selection to bolster adaptation, and sexual selection may therefore enable some species to track environmental change more efficiently.
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