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A Conflict Model of Reward-seeking Behavior in Male Rats
Published on: February 20, 2019
Signature of sexual conflict is actually conflict resolved
Judith E Mank1, Jacelyn J Shu1, Alison E Wright2
1Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Abstract:
There has been substantial interest of late in using population genetic methods to study sexual conflict, where an allele increases the fitness of one sex at some cost to the other (Mank, 2017). Population genomic scans for sexual conflict offer an important advance given the difficulties of identifying antagonistic alleles from more traditional methods, and could greatly increase our understanding of the extent and loci of sexual conflict. This is particularly true for studies in natural populations, for which obtaining accurate fitness measurements for each sex can be challenging. In this issue of Molecular Ecology, Bissegger, Laurentino, Roesti, and Berner (2019) present a cautionary tale about how to interpret these population genomic data.
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