Concerted evolution of metabolic rate, economics of mating, ecology, and pace of life across seed beetles.

ABSTRACT: Male-female coevolution has taken different paths among closely related species, but our understanding of the factors that govern its direction is limited. While it is clear that ecological factors, life history, and the economics of reproduction are connected, the divergent links are often obscure. We propose that a complete understanding requires the conceptual integration of metabolic phenotypes. Metabolic rate, a nexus of life history evolution, is constrained by ecological factors and may exert important direct and indirect effects on the evolution of sexual dimorphism. We performed standardized experiments in 12 seed beetle species to gain a rich set of sex-specific measures of metabolic phenotypes, life history traits, and the economics of mating and analyzed our multivariate data u

SUBMITTER: Arnqvist G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9388118 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature