On the role of sex differences for evolution in heterogeneous and changing fitness landscapes: insights from pygmy grasshoppers.

ABSTRACT: Much research has been devoted to study evolution of local adaptations by natural selection, and to explore the roles of neutral processes and developmental plasticity for patterns of diversity among individuals, populations and species. Some aspects, such as evolution of adaptive variation in phenotypic traits in stable environments, and the role of plasticity in predictable changing environments, are well understood. Other aspects, such as the role of sex differences for evolution in spatially heterogeneous and temporally changing environments and dynamic fitness landscapes, remain elusive. An increased understanding of evolution requires that sex differences in development, physiology, morphology, life-history and behaviours are more broadly considered. Studies of selection should take

SUBMITTER: Forsman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6125723 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature