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Digest: Does size matter? Condition-dependent sexual selection in Drosophila melanogaster
Vikram P Narayan1,2, Yiguan Wang3
1The School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia.
Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution
|June 28, 2021
Abstract:
What conditions favor competitive outcomes at different stages of the reproductive process? De Nardo et al. found that in Drosophila melanogaster, the evolution of male secondary sexual traits was influenced by sexual selection through mating success and competitive fertilization.