Sex differences in local adaptation: what can we learn from reciprocal transplant experiments?

ABSTRACT: Local adaptation is of fundamental interest to evolutionary biologists. Traditionally, local adaptation has been studied using reciprocal transplant experiments to quantify fitness differences between residents and immigrants in pairwise transplants between study populations. Previous studies have detected local adaptation in some cases, but others have shown lack of adaptation or even maladaptation. Recently, the importance of different fitness components, such as survival and fecundity, to local adaptation have been emphasized. Here, we address another neglected aspect in studies of local adaptation: sex differences. Given the ubiquity of sexual dimorphism in life histories and phenotypic traits, this neglect is surprising, but may be partly explained by differences in research tradition

SUBMITTER: Svensson EI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6125722 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature