Sökning: "antagonistic coevolution"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden antagonistic coevolution.

  1. 1. Sexual conflict and male-female coevolution in the fruit fly

    Författare :Urban Friberg; Göran Arnqvist; Daniel Promislow; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; cryptic male mate choice; Drosophila melanogaster; female mate choice; multiple mating; sexual conflict; sexually antagonistic coevolution; sexual selection; speciation; sperm competition; Biology; Biologi;

    Sammanfattning : Harmony and cooperation was for long believed to dominate sexual interactions. This view slowly started to change 25 years ago and is today replaced with a view where males and females act based on what is best from a costs-benefits perspective. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Taxonomy, phylogeny, and secondary sexual character evolution of diving beetles, focusing on the genus Acilius

    Författare :Johannes Bergsten; Anders N. Nilsson; Jyrki Muona; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; Biology; antagonistic coevolution; arms race; sexual conflict; diving beetle; Dytiscidae; Coleoptera; taxon sampling; long-branch attraction; parsimony; Bayesian analysis; taxonomic revision; Biologi; Biology; Biologi;

    Sammanfattning : Sexual conflict can lead to antagonistic coevolution between the sexes, but empirical examples are few. In this thesis secondary sexual characters in diving beetles are interpreted in the light of sexual conflict theory. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Male-female Coevolution in Bruchid seed beetles

    Författare :Johanna Liljestrand Rönn; Göran Arnqvist; Nina Wedell; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; Biology; Biologi; Animal Ecology; zooekologi; Animal Ecology; zooekologi;

    Sammanfattning : Male-female coevolution is at the heart of biology. It is responsible for much of the diversity we see in behaviour and morphology, and it is thought to be an important engine of speciation. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Polyandry and the evolution of reproductive divergence in insects

    Författare :Tina Nilsson; Göran Arnqvist; David Hosken; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Ecology; Bruchidae; cryptic female choice; multiple mating; sexual conflict; sexually antagonistic coevolution; sexual selection; speciation; sperm competition; Tenebrionidae; Ekologi; Terrestrial; freshwater and marine ecology; Terrestisk; limnisk och marin ekologi;

    Sammanfattning : Multiple mating by females is common in nature. Yet, the evolution and maintenance of polyandry remains a bit of an evolutionary puzzle. It was my aim in this thesis to reach a greater understanding of this phenomenon as well as to investigate the consequences of polyandry on the evolution of reproductive divergence in insects. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Sexual Conflict and Gene Expression in Drosophila melanogaster

    Författare :Paolo Innocenti; Edward Morrow; Göran Arnqvist; Andrew G Clark; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; Sexual conflict; sexual selection; male-female coevolution; gene expression; transcriptome; microarrays; sexual dimorphism; Drosophila; Biology; Biologi; Biologi med inriktning mot zooekologi; Biology with specialization in Animal Ecology; Biology with specialization in Evolutionary Genetics; Biologi med inriktning mot evolutionär genetik;

    Sammanfattning : Sexual conflict is broadly defined as a conflict between the evolutionary interests of the two sexes. Depending on the genetic architecture of the traits involved, it can occur at the level of male-female interactions or take the form of selection acting to change the mean of a shared trait against the sign of its genetic correlation. LÄS MER