期刊
JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
卷 23, 期 6, 页码 1321-1326出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.01991.x
关键词
sexual conflict; sexually antagonistic; coevolution; traumatic insemination; genital evolution
资金
- NSF
- Australia & Pacific Science Foundation
Sexual conflict has recently been proposed as a driving force behind the rapid diversification of genitalia among sexually reproducing organisms. In traumatically inseminating insects, males stab females in the side of the body with needle-like genitalia, ejaculating into their body cavity. Such mating is costly to females and has led to the evolution of cost-reducing 'paragenitalia' in some species. Whereas some consider this evidence of sexually antagonistic coevolution, others remain unconvinced. Variation in the reproductive morphology of both sexes - particularly males - is alleged to be negligible, contradicting the expectations of a coevolutionary arms race. Here, we use a phylogeny of the traumatically inseminating plant bug genus Coridromius to show that external female paragenitalia have evolved multiply across the genus and are correlated with changes in male genital shape. This pattern is characteristic of an evolutionary arms race driven by sexual conflict.
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