Experimental sexual selection reveals rapid evolutionary divergence in sex-specific transcriptomes and their interactions following mating.

ABSTRACT: Post copulatory interactions between the sexes in internally fertilizing species elicits both sexual conflict and sexual selection. Macroevolutionary and comparative studies have linked these processes to rapid transcriptomic evolution in sex-specific tissues and substantial transcriptomic post mating responses in females, patterns of which are altered when mating between reproductively isolated species. Here, we tested multiple predictions arising from sexual selection and conflict theory about the evolution of sex-specific and tissue-specific gene expression and the post mating response at the microevolutionary level. Following over 150 generations of experimental evolution under either reduced (enforced monogamy) or elevated (polyandry) sexual selection in Drosophila pseudoobscura, we f

SUBMITTER: Veltsos P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9325514 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature