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Sexual conflict and the gender load: correlated evolution between population fitness and sexual dimorphism in seed beetles

Although males and females share much of the same genome, selection is often distinct in the two sexes. Sexually antagonistic loci will in theory cause a gender load in populations, because sex-specific selection on a given trait in one sex will compromise the adaptive evolution of the same trait in...

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Main Authors: Arnqvist, Göran, Tuda, Midori
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871940/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20031994
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.2026
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