Detecting balancing selection in genomes: limits and prospects

A Fijarczyk, W Babik - Molecular ecology, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
In spite of the long‐term interest in the process of balancing selection, its frequency in
genomes and evolutionary significance remain unclear due to challenges related to its …

Genetic architecture and balancing selection: the life and death of differentiated variants

V Llaurens, A Whibley, M Joron - Molecular ecology, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Balancing selection describes any form of natural selection, which results in the persistence
of multiple variants of a trait at intermediate frequencies within populations. By offering up a …

Sex-dependent dominance at a single locus maintains variation in age at maturity in salmon

NJ Barson, T Aykanat, K Hindar, M Baranski… - Nature, 2015‏ - nature.com
Males and females share many traits that have a common genetic basis; however, selection
on these traits often differs between the sexes, leading to sexual conflict,. Under such sexual …

The genomics of sexual conflict

L Rowe, SF Chenoweth… - The American …, 2018‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
Sexual dimorphism is a substantial contributor to the diversity observed in nature, extending
from elaborate traits to the expression level of individual genes. Sexual conflict and sexually …

On the importance of balancing selection in plants

LF Delph, JK Kelly - New phytologist, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Balancing selection refers to a variety of selective regimes that maintain advantageous
genetic diversity within populations. We review the history of the ideas regarding the types of …

Genome-wide sexually antagonistic variants reveal long-standing constraints on sexual dimorphism in fruit flies

F Ruzicka, MS Hill, TM Pennell, I Flis, FC Ingleby… - PLoS …, 2019‏ - journals.plos.org
The evolution of sexual dimorphism is constrained by a shared genome, leading to 'sexual
antagonism', in which different alleles at given loci are favoured by selection in males and …

Negative frequency dependent selection unites ecology and evolution

MR Christie, GG McNickle - Ecology and Evolution, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
From genes to communities, understanding how diversity is maintained remains a
fundamental question in biology. One challenging to identify, yet potentially ubiquitous …

Balancing selection in species with separate sexes: insights from Fisher's geometric model

T Connallon, AG Clark - Genetics, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
How common is balancing selection, and what fraction of phenotypic variance is attributable
to balanced polymorphisms? Despite decades of research, answers to these questions …

Male-biased gene expression resolves sexual conflict through the evolution of sex-specific genetic architecture

AE Wright, M Fumagalli, CR Cooney, NI Bloch… - Evolution …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Many genes are subject to contradictory selection pressures in males and females, and
balancing selection resulting from sexual conflict has the potential to substantially increase …

The search for sexually antagonistic genes: Practical insights from studies of local adaptation and statistical genomics

F Ruzicka, L Dutoit, P Czuppon, CY Jordan… - Evolution …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Sexually antagonistic (SA) genetic variation—in which alleles favored in one sex are
disfavored in the other—is predicted to be common and has been documented in several …