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Sexual selection, germline mutation rate and sperm competition

open access: yesBMC 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

open access: yesEcology 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?

open access: yesCells, 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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A transcriptomic investigation of handicap models in sexual selection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
We are grateful to D. Calder and T. Helps for access to study sites, and G. Murray-Dickson and M. Oliver for help with fieldwork and comments on manuscript drafts. This work was funded by NERC grant NE/D000602/1 (SBP), a NERC advanced fellowship (FM) and
Martinez-Padilla, Jesus   +5 more
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Sexual selection gradients change over time in a simultaneous hermaphrodite

open access: yeseLife, 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

open access: yesEcology 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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There's no contest: Human sex differences are sexually selected [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The official published version can be accessed from the link below - Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009An evolutionary psychological perspective drawing on sexual selection theory can better explain sex differences in aggression and violence ...
Daly   +5 more
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THE EVOLUTION OF HOMO LUDENS: SEXUAL SELECTION AND A THEOLOGY OF PLAY

open access: yesZygon, 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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Post-insemination selection dominates pre-insemination selection in driving rapid evolution of male competitive ability.

open access: yesPLoS 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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Darwin, sexual selection, and the origins of music

open access: yes, 2018
Humans devote ample time to produce and perceive music. How and why this behavioral propensity originated in our species is unknown. For centuries, speculation dominated the study of the evolutionary origins of musicality.
Ravignani, A.
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