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Sexual selection in plants [PDF]
Current Biology, 2011 SummaryDarwin's theory of evolution by natural selection provided an immediately convincing explanation for the close fit between form and function in nature that had previously only been explicable in terms of supernatural design. Traits evolved in a way that improved their bearer's chances of survival and its success at producing offspring.
Moore, Jamie C., Pannell, John R.
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The sexual selection of endometriosis.
Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 2023 Selection can generate risk of maladaptive extremes in sexually dimorphic and sex-limited traits. In humans, such extremes commonly manifest in diseases associated with sex and reproduction. Endometriosis involves endometrial tissue that proliferates at non-uterine sites.
Bernard Crespi, Natalie L. Dinsdale
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Sexual selection in a transparent worm : insights from fluorescent sperm [PDF]
, 2015 Sexual selection is a potent source of selection underlying the evolution of sexual dimorphism, reproductive strategies and mating systems. Although sexual selection was initially thought to occur exclusively at the pre-copulatory stage (e.g., contests ...
Marie-Orleach, Lucas
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Darwin's Explanation of Races by Means of Sexual Selection [PDF]
, 2012 In _Darwin's Sacred Cause_, Adrian Desmond and James Moore contend that "Darwin would put his utmost into sexual selection because the subject intrigued him, no doubt, but also for a deeper reason: the theory vindicated his lifelong commitment to human ...
Millstein, Roberta L.
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Postcopulatory sexual selection [PDF]
Nature Reviews Genetics, 2002 The female reproductive tract is where competition between the sperm of different males takes place, aided and abetted by the female herself. Intense postcopulatory sexual selection fosters inter-sexual conflict and drives rapid evolutionary change to generate a startling diversity of morphological, behavioural and physiological adaptations.
Birkhead, T.R., Pizzari, T.
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Sexual Selection and Proteinaceous Diversity in the Femoral Gland Secretions of Lacertid Lizards
Diversity, 2023 Sexual selection contributes to the diversity of chemical signals in various animal groups. Lizards are good model species to study how sexual selection shapes signal diversity, as they are a chemically oriented taxonomic group with different levels of ...
Marco Mangiacotti +5 more
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Sexual selection on song and cuticular hydrocarbons in two distinct populations of Drosophila montana [PDF]
, 2011 Sexual selection has the potential to contribute to population divergence and speciation. Most studies of sexual selection in Drosophila have concentrated on a single signaling modality, usually either courtship song or cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs ...
Butlin, Roger K. +17 more
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The sexual selection continuum [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2002 The evolution of mate choice for genetic benefits has become the tale of two hypotheses: Fisher's 'run-away' and 'good genes', or viability indicators. These hypotheses are often pitted against each other as alternatives, with evidence that attractive males sire more viable offspring interpreted as support for good genes and with a negative or null ...
Kokko, H +3 more
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Interaction-Independent Sexual Selection and the Mechanisms of Sexual Selection [PDF]
Evolution, 1998 Darwin identified explicitly two types of sexual selection, male contests (combat and displays) and female choice, and he devoted the overwhelming majority of his examples to traits that influence the outcome of these interactions. Subsequent treatments of sexual selection have emphasized the importance of intra- and intersexual interactions as sources
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Sexual selection for males with beneficial mutations
Scientific Reports, 2022 Sexual selection is the process by which traits providing a mating advantage are favoured. Theoretical treatments of the evolution of sex by sexual selection propose that it operates by reducing the load of deleterious mutations.
Gilbert Roberts, Marion Petrie
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