Kin discrimination and demography modulate patterns of sexual conflict.

ABSTRACT: Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the overlap between kin selection and sexual selection, particularly concerning how kin selection can put the brakes on harmful sexual conflict. However, there remains a significant disconnect between theory and empirical research. Whilst empirical work has focused on kin-discriminating behaviour, theoretical models have assumed indiscriminating behaviour. Additionally, theoretical work makes particular demographic assumptions that constrain the relationship between genetic relatedness and the scale of competition, and it is not clear that these assumptions reflect the natural setting in which sexual conflict has been empirically studied. Here, we plug this gap between current theoretical and empirical understanding by developing a mathema

SUBMITTER: Faria GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7610387 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature