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Sexual selection in complex communities : integrating interspecific reproductive interference in structured populations

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02/04/2019
Author
McDonald, Grant
Gardner, Andy
Pizzari, Tommaso
Keywords
Interspecific reproductive interference
Parasitism
Predation
Sexual selection
Social evolution
Social structure
QH301 Biology
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Abstract
The social structure of populations plays a key role in shaping variation in sexual selection. In nature, sexual selection occurs in communities of interacting species; however, heterospecifics are rarely included in characterizations of social structure. Heterospecifics can influence the reproductive outcomes of intrasexual competition by interfering with intraspecific sexual interactions (interspecific reproductive interference [IRI]). We outline the need for studies of sexual selection to incorporate heterospecifics as part of the social environment. We use simulations to show that classic predictions for the effect of social structure on sexual selection are altered by an interaction between social structure and IRI. This interaction has wide‐ranging implications for patterns of sexual conflict and kin‐selected reproductive strategies in socially structured populations. Our work bridges the gap between sexual selection research on social structure and IRI, and highlights future directions to study sexual selection in interacting communities.
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McDonald , G , Gardner , A & Pizzari , T 2019 , ' Sexual selection in complex communities : integrating interspecific reproductive interference in structured populations ' , Evolution , vol. Early View . https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13726
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Evolution
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13726
ISSN
0014-3820
Type
Journal article
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© 2019 The Author(s). Evolution published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of The Society for the Study of Evolution. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Funding: European Research Council (771387) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NE/K009524/1) (AG).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17634

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