Journal
JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 9, Pages 1989-1997Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02064.x
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Drosophila melanogaster; experimental evolution; geometric morphometrics; intralocus sexual conflict; ontogenetic sexual conflict; sexual size dimorphism
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- Swedish Research Council
- NSERC
- French government
- Queen's University
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Intralocus sexual conflict occurs when opposing selection pressures operate on loci expressed in both sexes, constraining the evolution of sexual dimorphism and displacing one or both sexes from their optimum. We eliminated intralocus conflict in Drosophila melanogaster by limiting transmission of all major chromosomes to males, thereby allowing them to win the intersexual tug-of-war. Here, we show that this male-limited (ML) evolution treatment led to the evolution (in both sexes) of masculinized wing morphology, body size, growth rate, wing loading, and allometry. In addition to more male-like size and shape, ML evolution resulted in an increase in developmental stability for males. However, females expressing ML chromosomes were less developmentally stable, suggesting that being ontogenetically more male-like was disruptive to development. We suggest that sexual selection over size and shape of the imago may therefore explain the persistence of substantial genetic variation in these characters and the ontogenetic processes underlying them.
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