The roles of sexual selection and sexual conflict in sha** patterns of genome and transcriptome variation

NM Tosto, ER Beasley, BBM Wong, JE Mank… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Sexual dimorphism is one of the most prevalent, and often the most extreme, examples of
phenotypic variation within species, and arises primarily from genomic variation that is …

Reproductive transitions in plants and animals: selfing syndrome, sexual selection and speciation

AD Cutter - New Phytologist, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of predominant self‐fertilisation frequently coincides with the evolution of a
collection of phenotypes that comprise the 'selfing syndrome', in both plants and animals …

Y recombination arrest and degeneration in the absence of sexual dimorphism

T Lenormand, D Roze - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
Current theory proposes that degenerated sex chromosomes—such as the mammalian Y—
evolve through three steps:(i) recombination arrest, linking male-beneficial alleles to the Y …

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 …

The evolution of sex peptide: sexual conflict, cooperation, and coevolution

BR Hopkins, JC Perry - Biological Reviews, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A central paradigm in evolutionary biology is that the fundamental divergence in
the fitness interests of the sexes ('sexual conflict') can lead to both the evolution of sex …

The genomic footprint of sexual conflict

A Sayadi, A Martinez Barrio, E Immonen… - Nature ecology & …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Genes with sex-biased expression show a number of unique properties and this has been
seen as evidence for conflicting selection pressures in males and females, forming a genetic …

The alignment of natural and sexual selection

L Rowe, HD Rundle - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
Sexual selection has the potential to decrease mean fitness in a population through an array
of costs to nonsexual fitness. These costs may be offset when sexual selection favors …

The genomics and evolution of inter-sexual mimicry and female-limited polymorphisms in damselflies

B Willink, K Tunström, S Nilén, R Chikhi… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Sex-limited morphs can provide profound insights into the evolution and genomic
architecture of complex phenotypes. Inter-sexual mimicry is one particular type of sex-limited …

The 150th anniversary of The Descent of Man: Darwin and the impact of sex-role reversal on sexual selection research

K Fritzsche, JM Henshaw, BD Johnson… - Biological Journal of …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
The year 2021 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's
extraordinary book The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. Here, we review …

Searching for signatures of sexually antagonistic selection on stickleback sex chromosomes

AJ Dagilis, JM Sardell… - … of the Royal …, 2022‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Intralocus sexually antagonistic selection occurs when an allele is beneficial to one sex but
detrimental to the other. This form of selection is thought to be key to the evolution of sex …