A comprehensive overview of the effects of urbanisation on sexual selection and sexual traits.

ABSTRACT: Urbanisation can affect mating opportunities and thereby alter inter- and intra-sexual selection pressures on sexual traits. Biotic and abiotic urban conditions can influence an individual's success in pre- and post-copulatory mating, for example through impacts on mate attraction and mate preference, fertilisation success, resource competition or rival interactions. Divergent sexual selection pressures can lead to differences in behavioural, physiological, morphological or life-history traits between urban and non-urban populations, ultimately driving adaptation and speciation. Most studies on urban sexual selection and mating interactions report differences between urban and non-urban populations or correlations between sexual traits and factors associated with increased urbanisation, su

SUBMITTER: Cronin AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9541148 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature