A General Explanation for the Persistence of Reproductive Interference.
Odonata
character displacement
evolutionary catch-22
local mate competition
mate recognition
reproductive interference
Journal
The American naturalist
ISSN: 1537-5323
Titre abrégé: Am Nat
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 2984688R
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2019
08 2019
Historique:
entrez:
19
7
2019
pubmed:
19
7
2019
medline:
9
4
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Reproductive interference is widespread, despite the theoretical expectation that it should be eliminated by reproductive character displacement (RCD). A possible explanation is that females of sympatric species are too similar phenotypically for males to distinguish between them, resulting in a type of evolutionary dilemma or catch-22 in which reproductive interference persists because male mate recognition (MR) cannot evolve until female phenotypes diverge further, and vice versa. Here we illustrate and test this hypothesis with data on rubyspot damselflies (
Banques de données
Dryad
['10.5061/dryad.63mk0ks']
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM