Resource-dependent evolution of female resistance responses to sexual conflict.

ABSTRACT: Sexual conflict can promote the evolution of dramatic reproductive adaptations as well as resistance to its potentially costly effects. Theory predicts that responses to sexual conflict will vary significantly with resource levels-when scant, responses should be constrained by trade-offs, when abundant, they should not. However, this can be difficult to test because the evolutionary interests of the sexes align upon short-term exposure to novel environments, swamping any selection due to sexual conflict. What is needed are investigations of populations that are well adapted to both differing levels of sexual conflict and resources. Here, we used this approach in a long-term experimental evolution study to track the evolution of female resistance to sexual conflict in the fruit fly Drosophi

SUBMITTER: Rostant WG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7006461 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature