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Effects of female preference intensity on the permissiveness of sexual trait polymorphisms
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posted on 2018-05-01, 00:00 authored by Aditya Vivek Ponkshe, John EndlerJohn EndlerRecent developments in sexual selection theory suggest that on their own, mate preferences can promote the maintenance of sexual trait diversity. However, how mate preferences constrain the permissiveness of sexual trait diversity in different environmental regimes remains an open question. Here, we examine how a range of mate choice parameters affect the permissiveness of sexual trait polymorphism under several selection regimes. We use the null model of sexual selection and show that environments with strong assortative mating significantly increase the permissiveness of sexual trait polymorphism. We show that for a given change in mate choice parameters, the permissiveness of polymorphism changes more in environments with strong natural selection on sexual traits than in environments with weak selection. Sets of nearly stable polymorphic populations with weak assortative mating are more likely to show accidental divergence in sexual traits than sets of populations with strong assortative mating. The permissiveness of sexual trait polymorphism critically depends upon particular combinations of natural selection and mate choice parameters.
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Ecology and evolutionVolume
8Issue
9Pagination
4518 - 4524Publisher
Wiley Open AccessLocation
Chichester, Eng.Publisher DOI
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2045-7758eISSN
2045-7758Language
engPublication classification
C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2018, The AuthorsUsage metrics
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assortative matingfisher processnull modelpolymorphism permissivenesssexual selectionScience & TechnologyLife Sciences & BiomedicineEcologyEvolutionary BiologyEnvironmental Sciences & EcologyCOLOR POLYMORPHISMSMATING PREFERENCESGUPPY POPULATIONSGENETIC MODELSSELECTIONEVOLUTIONSPECIATIONMAINTENANCECHOICEPARADOXEvolutionary BiologyEvolutionary Impacts of Climate ChangeEcology
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