Journal
EVOLUTION
Volume 64, Issue 9, Pages 2775-2778Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01021.x
Keywords
Selection differential; selection gradient; sexual antagonism; sexual conflict; sexual dimorphism
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- Swedish Research Council
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A growing body of experimental and field data shows that selective pressures often differ between males and females. Surprisingly, to date, little attempt has been made to formalize a metric expressing the relative behavior of directional selection in the two sexes. We propose an index that describes the extent to which concordant or antagonistic selection is operating between the sexes for a given trait. This joint index could prove especially useful for the study of intralocus sexual conflict and the evolution of sexual dimorphism, providing a common scale to directly compare different traits within or among taxonomic levels, and allowing an assessment on how common sexually antagonistic selection might be in extant populations.
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