sextual conflict Flashcards
Traits that confer a fitness benefit to one sex but a cost to the other
Sextual conflict
Examples of sextual conflict
Antagonistic coevolution
Evolutionary arms race
Antagonistic coevolution
relationship between males and females where sexual morphology changes over time to counteract the opposite’s sex traits to achieve the maximum reproductive success
Example of antagonistic coevolution
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
Examples of antagonistic evolution
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