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ArticleEvolution letters2026

The effects of sexual selection on functional and molecular reproductive divergence during experimental evolution in seed beetles.

Salomé Fromonteil, Alexandre Rêgo, Elina Immonen, Biljana Stojković, Uroš Savković, Mirko Đorđević, Johanna L Rönn, Göran Arnqvist

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  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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8 authors.

Salomé FromonteilAnimal Ecology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Alexandre RêgoAnimal Ecology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Elina ImmonenEvolutionary Biology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1121-6950
Biljana StojkovićInstitute of Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Uroš SavkovićDepartment of Evolutionary Biology, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković"-National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9430-4619
Mirko ĐorđevićDepartment of Evolutionary Biology, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković"-National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Johanna L RönnAnimal Ecology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Göran ArnqvistAnimal Ecology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3501-3376

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sexual selection can be an engine of divergent evolution between closely related lineages, as a result of idiosyncratic coevolution of male and female reproductive traits. The possibility that this can contribute to speciation has ample support from comparative studies but very few experimental evolution studies have addressed the role of sexual selection in very early stages of divergent evolution. Here, we use experimental evolution to study divergent evolution between replicate lines of the seed beetle

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