Sexual selection protects against extinction

Nature

Volumn 522, Issue 7557, 2015, Pages 470-473

  Lumley, Alyson J ^a   Michalczyk, Łukasz ^b   Kitson, James J N ^a   Spurgin, Lewis G ^a   Morrison, Catriona A ^a   Godwin, Joanne L ^a   Dickinson, Matthew E ^a   Martin, Oliver Y ^c   Emerson, Brent C ^d   Chapman, Tracey ^a   Gage, Matthew J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTO DE PRODUCTOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; FITNESS; GENOME; INBREEDING; MASS EXTINCTION; MATE CHOICE; MUTATION; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; VIABILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; BIODIVERSITY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; INSECT GENOME; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION PRODUCTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SURVIVAL TIME; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MATE CHOICE; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TRIBOLIUM;

COLEOPTERA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; INBREEDING; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MUTATION; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 84933074092     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14419     Document Type: Article

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