The evolution of sex roles: The importance of ecology and social environment.

ABSTRACT: Males and females often have different roles in reproduction, although the origin of these differences has remained controversial. Explaining the enigmatic reversed sex roles where males sacrifice their mating potential and provide full parental care is a particularly long-standing challenge in evolutionary biology. While most studies focused on ecological factors as the drivers of sex roles, recent research highlights the significance of social factors such as the adult sex ratio. To disentangle these propositions, here, we investigate the additive and interactive effects of several ecological and social factors on sex role variation using shorebirds (sandpipers, plovers, and allies) as model organisms that provide the full spectrum of sex role variation including some of the best-known e

SUBMITTER: Fresneau N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11145285 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature