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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2014 Genetic polymorphism can be maintained over time by negative frequency-dependent (FD) selection induced by Rock-paper-scissors (RPS) social systems. RPS games produce cyclic dynamics, and have been suggested to exist in lizards, insects, isopods, plants,
Patrick S. Fitze +12 more
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Adaptation to a bacterial pathogen in Drosophila melanogaster is not aided by sexual selection
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Theory predicts that sexual selection should aid adaptation to novel environments, but empirical support for this idea is limited. Pathogens are a major driver of host evolution and, unlike abiotic selection pressures, undergo epidemiological and co ...
Sakshi Sharda +2 more
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Sexual selection, germline mutation rate and sperm competition
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2003 Background An important component of sexual selection arises because females obtain viability benefits for their offspring from their mate choice.
Møller AP, Cuervo JJ
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Divergent natural selection alters male sperm competition success in Drosophila melanogaster
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Sexually selected traits may also be subject to non‐sexual selection. If optimal trait values depend on environmental conditions, then “narrow sense” (i.e., non‐sexual) natural selection can lead to local adaptation, with fitness in a certain environment
Ralph Dobler +4 more
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Can Sexual Selection Drive the Evolution of Sperm Cell Structure?
Cells, 2021 Sperm cells have undergone an extraordinarily divergent evolution among metazoan animals. Parker recognized that because female animals frequently mate with more than one male, sexual selection would continue after mating and impose strong selection on ...
Leigh W. Simmons +1 more
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Sexual selection gradients change over time in a simultaneous hermaphrodite
eLife, 2017 Sexual selection is generally predicted to act more strongly on males than on females. The Darwin-Bateman paradigm predicts that this should also hold for hermaphrodites.
Jeroen NA Hoffer +3 more
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Resource acquisition and pre‐copulatory sexual selection
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Sexual selection influences the evolution of phenotypic traits and contributes to patterns of biodiversity. In many animals, mating involves sequential steps.
Hope Klug, Chelsea Langley, Elijah Reyes
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THE EVOLUTION OF HOMO LUDENS: SEXUAL SELECTION AND A THEOLOGY OF PLAY
Zygon, 2022 This essay argues that reflection on sexual selection can be theologically generative, and that it presents needed counteremphases to some of the discussions about theological anthropology that have been fueled by theological reflection on natural ...
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PLoS Genetics, 2022 Sexual reproduction is a complex process that contributes to differences between the sexes and divergence between species. From a male's perspective, sexual selection can optimize reproductive success by acting on the variance in mating success (pre ...
Katja R Kasimatis +5 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Asymptomatic infection poses a significant risk for children undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Pre‐transplant surveillance computed tomography (CT) is commonly used to identify occult infection, though its diagnostic yield remains uncertain.
Tyler Obermark +9 more
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