Keywords: sexual selection
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Meiotic drive does not cause condition-dependent reduction of the sexual ornament in stalk-eyed fliesS. R. Finnegan, M. Mondani, K. Fowler and A. Pomiankowski, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 11. 2021.
Meiotic drive systems are associated with low-frequency chromosomal inversions. These are expected to accumulate deleterious mutations due to reduced recombination and low effective population size. We test this prediction using the 'sex-ratio' (SR) meiotic drive system of the ... |
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Mosquito Sexual Selection and Reproductive Control ProgramsL. J. Cator, C. A. S. Wyer and L. C. Harrington, Trends in Parasitology, 37:330-339. 2021.
The field of mosquito mating biology has experienced a considerable expansion in the past decade. Recent work has generated many key insights about specific aspects of mating behavior and physiology. Here, we synthesize these findings and classify swarming mosquito systems as ... |
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Selfish genes and sexual selection: the impact of genomic parasites on host reproductionN. Wedell, Journal of Zoology, 311:1-12. 2020.Selfish genetic elements (SGEs) such as replicating mobile elements, segregation distorters and maternally inherited endosymbionts, bias their transmission success relative to the rest of the genome to increase in representation in subsequent generations. As such, they generate ... |
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Does meiotic drive alter male mate preference?S. R. Finnegan, L. Nitsche, M. Mondani, M. F. Camus, K. Fowler and A. Pomiankowski, Behavioral Ecology, 13:194-201. 2019.
Male mate preferences have been demonstrated across a range of species, including the Malaysian stalk-eyed fly, Teleopsis dalmanni. This species is subject to sex-ratio (SR), an X-linked male meiotic driver, which causes the dysfunction of Y-sperm and the production of all-female ... |
