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Automated content analysis as a tool to compare content in sexual selection research with examples of sexual selection in evolutionary biology textbooks: implications for teaching the nature of science
BackgroundWe used college-level evolution textbooks to examine the presentation of sexual selection research—a field with ongoing debates related to...
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Chemical communication and its role in sexual selection across Animalia
Sexual selection has been studied as a major evolutionary driver of animal diversity for roughly 50 years. Much evidence indicates that competition...
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The roles of sexual selection and sexual conflict in sha** patterns of genome and transcriptome variation
Sexual dimorphism is one of the most prevalent, and often the most extreme, examples of phenotypic variation within species, and arises primarily...
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Environmental variation shapes and links parasitism to sexual selection
Parasite-driven population divergence in hosts can be exacerbated by environmental factors affecting host parasitism, as well as by increasing sexual...
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Sexual selection on a female copulatory device in an insect with nuptial gifts
AbstractMale genitalia are rapidly evolving structures, often driven by sexual selection to increase fertilisation success. Although sexual selection...
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Defensive tolerance to parasitism is correlated with sexual selection in swallows
Parasite-mediated sexual selection has been the topic of extensive research and enthusiastic debate for more than three decades. Here, we suggest...
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Sexual Selection: Following Darwin’s Legacy
Much of the knowledge we treasure about evolution, and biology in general, rests on Darwin’s ideas about sexual selection put forward 150 years ago....
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Can Patterns of Static Allometry be Inferred from Regimes of Sexual Selection in the Japanese Beetle?
Evolutionary biologists have long posited that secondary sexual characters experiencing positive directional selection should be positively...
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Sexual selection leads to positive allometry but not sexual dimorphism in the expression of horn shape in the blue wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus
Sexual selection is thought to be an important driver of adaptation, speciation and extinction. Empirically testing these predictions across...
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The Sexual Selection Landscape and Sexually-Selected Traits of the Crested Macaque (Macaca nigra)
Sexual selection explains the evolution of traits that impact mating and reproductive success. Primates are an excellent system for studying...
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Influence of the Rate of Changes in the COX1 Gene on Body Size and Sexual Selection in Carp Hybridization
AbstractThe influence of mtDNA cytochrome c -oxidase I gene fragment variability on body length has been studied in 12 species of cyprinids, which...
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Shorter effective lifespan in laboratory populations of D. melanogaster might reduce sexual selection
AbstractThe role of sexual selection in mediating levels of sexual conflict has been demonstrated in many experimental evolution studies on Drosophila ...
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Selection drives convergent gene expression changes during transitions to co-sexuality in haploid sexual systems
Co-sexuality has evolved repeatedly from unisexual (dioicous) ancestors across a wide range of taxa. However, the molecular changes underpinning this...
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Directional selection coupled with kin selection favors the establishment of senescence
BackgroundConventional wisdom in evolutionary theory considers aging as a non-selected byproduct of natural selection. Based on this, conviction...
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Predaceous Diving Beetle Sexual Systems
Diving beetles have an impressively diverse array of morphological and behavioral attributes associated with sexual systems. These include anatomical...
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Sexual Selection: Evolutionary Foundations
There are a number of other forms of reproduction in the animal kingdom besides the gonochoristic reproduction familiar to us. These variants can be...
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Sexual dimorphisms in body proportions of Masai giraffes and the evolution of the giraffe’s neck
Giraffes exhibit a large sexual dimorphism in body size. Whether sexual dimorphisms also exist in body proportions of the axial and appendicular...
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Ecological disruptive selection acting on quantitative loci can drive sympatric speciation
The process of speciation generates biodiversity. According to the null model of speciation, barriers between populations arise in allopatry, where,...
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Genetic and phenotypic parameters for sexual precocity and parasite resistance traits in Nellore cattle
Indicator traits of sexual precocity are widely used as selection criteria for the genetic improvement of beef cattle; however, the impact of...
