Inter-genomic sexual conflict drives antagonistic coevolution in harvester ants.

ABSTRACT: The reproductive interests of males and females are not always aligned, leading to sexual conflict over parental investment, rate of reproduction and mate choice. Traits that increase the genetic interests of one sex often occur at the expense of the other, selecting for counter-adaptations leading to antagonistic coevolution. Reproductive conflict is not limited to intraspecific interactions; interspecific hybridization can produce pronounced sexual conflict between males and females of different species, but it is unclear whether such conflict can drive sexually antagonistic coevolution between reproductively isolated genomes. We tested for hybridization-driven sexually antagonistic adaptations in queens and males of the socially hybridogenetic 'J' lineages of Pogonomyrmex harvester ants

SUBMITTER: Herrmann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4240986 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature