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Sexual selection
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Sexual selection can drive speciation
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…and extinction
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Major questions:
• Why do males* compete for access to females?• Why are females* so choosy?
*Except for sex-role reversed species
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Eager males, coy females
• “That males … eagerly pursue the females, is notorious to everyone… The female, on the other hand, with the rarest exceptions, is coy and may often be seen endeavouring for a long time to escape the male.” (Darwin 1871)
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Why the sex difference in behaviour?
• Bateman’s fly experiments– stocked breeding vials with
equal numbers females & males
– for each fly, determined• # of offspring
(reproductive success)• # of mates (mating
success)
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1. Male vs female reproductive success
• average reproductive success• variance around this average• maximum reproductive success
freq
uenc
y
number of offspring (repro success)
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2. Male vs female mating success
• higher variance in males… some get no mates, some have many
freq
uenc
y
number of mates (mating success)
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3. Mating success vs reproductive success
offs
prin
g
mates
Bateman gradients
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Bateman’s principles and parental investment
• males and females have equal average fitness, but different potential fitness and variance in fitness (Bateman 1948)
• fitness of males, but not females, increases with number of mates (Bateman 1948)
• in general, whichever sex invests less in offspring competes for access to the sex that invests more (Trivers 1972)
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Major questions:
• Why do males compete for access to females?• Why are females so choosy?
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Being choosy can be risky. Why not just mate with the first male you meet?
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Direct benefits: resources or care
But in most species, males provide only genes
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Indirect (genetic) benefits:(1) Sexy sons
• Haploid, 2 locus model (T and C)• Starting frequencies:
– 50% males have the trait (T)– 50% males lack the trait (t)– 50% females are choosy (C)… only mate with T
males– 50% females are not choosy (c) … mate with either
T or t males
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Sexy son = runaway = Fisherian selection
• starting haplotype frequencies:– 0.25 TC– 0.25 Tc– 0.25 tC– 0.25 tc
• next generation:– 0.5 TC– 0.25 Tc– 0 tC– 0.25 tc
http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/~barrylab/classes/animal_behavior/BOX_3_1.HTM
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Sexy son = runaway = Fisherian selection
• T males attract more mates, f(T) increases
• T and C become genetically correlated
• f(C) increases as f(T) increases• T males get even more
mates… positive feedback• Powerful when f(C) is high.
What about early stages when C and T are rare?
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Indirect (genetic) benefits:(2) Good genes
• Sexy sons: female preferences are arbitrary
• Good genes: female preferences are adaptive– only high-quality males can
produce sexy traits– offspring of sexy dads inherit
good genes and survive better
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But if good genes are so important, why is there still variation?
• “Paradox of the Lek”• male trait signals genetic quality• what happens to genetic variation at a
locus when it experiences sustained directional selection?
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Genic capture models solve the paradox via selection/mutation balance
• trait itself may be polygenic: trait itself is a large mutational target
(Pomiankowski & Møller 1990)
• trait expression may depend on condition, which is polygenic: condition is a large mutational target
(Rowe & Houle 1996)
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• Good genes: additive effects on fitness– allele increases fitness regardless of the rest of the
genome– all females should prefer males with ‘good genes’
• Compatible genes: non-additive effects– allele’s effect on fitness depends on the rest of the
genome (eg heterozygote advantage)– female preferences depend on her own genotype
Indirect (genetic) benefits:(3) Compatible genes
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Indirect (genetic) benefits:(3) Compatible genes
Neff & Pitcher 2005
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Heterozygote advantage and disassortative mating at MHC
• Major histocompatibility complex = cornerstone of adaptive immunity
• More alleles broader immune defenses
• Sweaty T-shirt studyWedekind et al 1995, Penn & Potts 2002
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Mate choice doesn’t end at copulation
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Sexual selection amazing adaptations
• Bateman gradients let us predict which sex competes and which sex chooses
• Mate choice can be costly, but choosing the best mate (or the best mate for you) confers material and/or genetic benefits