The effect of purging on sexually selected traits through antagonistic pleiotropy with survival

Sexually selected traits are expected to evolve to a point where their positive effect on reproductive success is counterbalanced by their negative effect on survival. At the genetic level, such a trade-off implies antagonistic pleiotropy between survival and the expression of sexually selected trai...

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Main Authors: Bolstad, Geir H, Pélabon, Christophe, Larsen, Line-K, Fleming, Ian A, Viken, Åslaug, Rosenqvist, Gunilla
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3402193/