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1 May 2008 Postcopulatory Fertilization Bias as a Form of Cryptic Sexual Selection
Ryan Calsbeek, Camille Bonneaud
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Abstract

Males and females share most of their genetic material yet often experience very different selection pressures. Some traits that are adaptive when expressed in males may therefore be maladaptive when expressed in females. Recent studies demonstrating negative correlations in fitness between parents and their opposite-sex progeny suggest that natural selection may favor a reduction in trait correlations between the sexes to partially mitigate intralocus sexual conflict. We studied sex-specific forms of selection acting in Anolis lizards in the Greater Antilles, a group for which the importance of natural selection has been well documented in species-level diversification, but for which less is known about sexual selection. Using the brown anole (Anolis sagrei), we measured fitness-related variation in morphology (body size), and variation in two traits reflecting whole animal physiological condition: running endurance and immune function. Correlations between body size and physiological traits were opposite between males and females and the form of natural selection acting on physiological traits significantly differed between the sexes. Moreover, physiological traits in progeny were correlated with the body-size of their sires, but correlations were null or even negative between parents and their opposite-sex progeny. Although results based on phenotypic and genetic correlations, as well as the action of natural selection, suggest the potential for intralocus sexual conflict, females used sire body size as a cue to sort sperm for the production of either sons or daughters. Our results suggest that intralocus sexual conflict may be at least partly resolved through post-copulatory sperm choice in A. sagrei.

Ryan Calsbeek and Camille Bonneaud "Postcopulatory Fertilization Bias as a Form of Cryptic Sexual Selection," Evolution 62(5), 1137-1148, (1 May 2008). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00356.x
Received: 11 October 2007; Accepted: 27 January 2008; Published: 1 May 2008
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KEYWORDS
island
lizard
physiology
selection
sexual conflict
sperm
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