Sexual selection modulates genetic conflicts and patterns of genomic imprinting.

ABSTRACT: Recent years have seen a surge of interest in linking the theories of kin selection and sexual selection. In particular, there is a growing appreciation that kin selection, arising through demographic factors such as sex-biased dispersal, may modulate sexual conflicts, including in the context of male-female arms races characterized by coevolutionary cycles. However, evolutionary conflicts of interest need not only occur between individuals, but may also occur within individuals, and sex-specific demography is known to foment such intragenomic conflict in relation to social behavior. Whether and how this logic holds in the context of sexual conflict-and, in particular, in relation to coevolutionary cycles-remains obscure. We develop a kin-selection model to investigate the interests of dif

SUBMITTER: Faria GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5347858 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature