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ESCALATION AND CONSTRAINTS OF ANTAGONISTIC ARMAMENTS IN WATER STRIDERS
Armamentos antagônicos
Coevolução
Striders da água
Dimorfismo sexual
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Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon. Université de Lyon. Université Claude Bernard. Lyon, France / University of Copenhagen. Department of Biology, Section for Ecology and Evolution. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon. Université de Lyon. Université Claude Bernard. Lyon, France.
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon. Université de Lyon. Université Claude Bernard. Lyon, France.
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon. Université de Lyon. Université Claude Bernard. Lyon, France / University of Toronto. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
University of Toronto. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Toronto, Ontario, Canada / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon. Université de Lyon. Université Claude Bernard. Lyon, France.
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon. Université de Lyon. Université Claude Bernard. Lyon, France.
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon. Université de Lyon. Université Claude Bernard. Lyon, France.
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon. Université de Lyon. Université Claude Bernard. Lyon, France / University of Toronto. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
University of Toronto. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Toronto, Ontario, Canada / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon. Université de Lyon. Université Claude Bernard. Lyon, France.
Abstract
Sexual conflict may result in the escalating coevolution of sexually antagonistic traits. However, our understanding of the evolutionary dynamics of antagonistic traits and their role in association with sex-specific escalation remains limited. Here we study sexually antagonistic coevolution in a genus of water striders called Rhagovelia. We identified a set of male grasping traits and female anti-grasping traits used during pre-mating struggles and show that natural variation of these traits is associated with variation in mating performance in the direction expected for antagonistic co-evolution. Phylogenetic mapping detected signals of escalation of these sexually antagonistic traits suggesting an ongoing arms race. Moreover, their escalation appears to be constrained by a trade-off with dispersal through flight in both sexes. Altogether our results highlight how sexual interactions may have shaped sex-specific antagonistic traits and how constraints imposed by natural selection may have influenced their evolution.
Keywords in Portuguese
Conflito sexualArmamentos antagônicos
Coevolução
Striders da água
Dimorfismo sexual
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