sextual conflict Flashcards

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Traits that confer a fitness benefit to one sex but a cost to the other

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Sextual conflict

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Examples of sextual conflict

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Antagonistic coevolution
Evolutionary arms race

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Antagonistic coevolution

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relationship between males and females where sexual morphology changes over time to counteract the opposite’s sex traits to achieve the maximum reproductive success

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Example of antagonistic coevolution

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flies, males inject chemicals along with sperm into their mates to ward off other males. Shorten the lifespan of the female. Females evolved to produce proteins that destroy some of those chemicals

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Examples of antagonistic evolution

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Ducks, male can’t find a
bond mate or has finished
mating, they try to force
females to mate. Females evolve defenses. Males and females in bed bugs-traumatic insemination

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