Title |
Evolution of mate-harm, longevity and behaviour in male fruit flies subjected to different levels of interlocus conflict
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Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, September 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-13-212 |
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Authors |
Bodhisatta Nandy, Vanika Gupta, Sharmi Sen, Niveda Udaykumar, Manas Arun Samant, Syed Zeeshan Ali, Nagaraj Guru Prasad |
Abstract |
Interlocus conflict predicts (a) evolution of traits, beneficial to males but detrimental to females and (b) evolution of aging and life-span under the influence of the cost of bearing these traits. However, there are very few empirical investigations shedding light on these predictions. Those that do address these issues, mostly reported response of male reproductive traits or the lack of it and do not address the life-history consequence of such evolution. Here, we test both the above mentioned predictions using experimental evolution on replicate populations of Drosophila melanogaster. We present responses observed after >45 generations of altered levels of interlocus conflict (generated by varying the operational sex ratio). |
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