Title |
Postcopulatory Sexual Selection Generates Speciation Phenotypes in Drosophila
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Published in |
Current Biology, September 2013
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DOI | 10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.086 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Mollie K. Manier, Stefan Lüpold, John M. Belote, William T. Starmer, Kirstin S. Berben, Outi Ala-Honkola, William F. Collins, Scott Pitnick |
Abstract |
Identifying traits that reproductively isolate species, and the selective forces underlying their divergence, is a central goal of evolutionary biology and speciation research. There is growing recognition that postcopulatory sexual selection, which can drive rapid diversification of interacting ejaculate and female reproductive tract traits that mediate sperm competition, may be an engine of speciation. Conspecific sperm precedence (CSP) is a taxonomically widespread form of reproductive isolation, but the selective causes and divergent traits responsible for CSP are poorly understood. |
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