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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025

Sexual selection, genomic evolution and population fitness in

Stewart Leigh, Peter Thorpe, Rhonda R Snook, Michael G Ritchie

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Sexual selection purges mutation load, but not overall genetic diversity, decreasing vulnerability to extinction.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Stewart LeighCentre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6087-8075
Peter ThorpeCentre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8572-4654
Rhonda R SnookDepartment of Zoology, Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-1852-1448
Michael G RitchieCentre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7913-8675

Funding

Natural Environment Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sexual selection shapes the genome in unique ways. It is also likely to have significant fitness consequences, such as purging deleterious mutations from the genome or conversely maintaining genetic load in a population via sexual conflict. Here, we examined what the influence of sexual selection has on genomic variation potentially underlying population fitness using experimentally evolved

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Biological EvolutionDrosophilaEvolution, MolecularGenetic FitnessGenome, InsectSexual SelectionAnimalsDNA Transposable ElementsFemaleMaleSelection, GeneticDNA Transposable Elementsdistribution of fitness effectsmutational loadsexual conflictsexual selection

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PMID40169023
PMCPMC11961267

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