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Multivariate selection and intersexual genetic constraints in a wild bird population

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Date
10/2016
Author
Poissant, Jocelyn
Morrissey, Michael Blair
Gosler, Andrew
Slate, Jon
Sheldon, Ben
Keywords
G matrix
Genetic correlation
Intralocus sexual conflict
Selection gradient
Sexual dimorphism
QA Mathematics
QH301 Biology
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Abstract
When selection differs between the sexes for traits that are genetically correlated between the sexes, there is potential for the effect of selection in one sex to be altered by indirect selection in the other sex, a situation commonly referred to as intralocus sexual conflict (ISC). While potentially common, ISC has rarely been studied in wild populations. Here, we studied ISC over a set of morphological traits (wing length, tarsus length, bill depth, and bill length) in a wild population of great tits (Parus major) from Wytham Woods, UK. Specifically, we quantified the microevolutionary impacts of ISC by combining intra- and inter-sex additive genetic (co)variances and sex-specific selection estimates in a multivariate framework. Large genetic correlations between homologous male and female traits combined with evidence for sex-specific multivariate survival selection suggested that ISC could play an appreciable role in the evolution of this population. Together, multivariate sex-specific selection and additive genetic (co)variance for the traits considered accounted for additive genetic variance in fitness was uncorrelated between the sexes (cross-sex genetic correlation = -0.003, 95% CI = -0.83, 0.83). Gender load, defined as the reduction in a population’s rate of adaptation due to sex-specific effects, was estimated at 50% (95% CI = 13%, 86%). This study provides novel insights into the evolution of sexual dimorphism in wild populations and illustrates how quantitative genetics and selection analyses can be combined in a multivariate framework to quantify the microevolutionary impacts of ISC.
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Poissant , J , Morrissey , M B , Gosler , A , Slate , J & Sheldon , B 2016 , ' Multivariate selection and intersexual genetic constraints in a wild bird population ' , Journal of Evolutionary Biology , vol. 29 , no. 10 , pp. 2022-2035 . https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12925
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12925
ISSN
1420-9101
Type
Journal article
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© 2016 European Society For Evolutionary Biology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology © 2016 European Society For Evolutionary Biology. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at onlinelibrary.wiley.com / https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12925
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11215

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