| Autor: |
Chokechaipaisarn C; School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9TH, UK., Gardner A; School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9TH, UK. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Biology letters [Biol Lett] 2024 Oct; Vol. 20 (10), pp. 20240378. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 30. |
| DOI: |
10.1098/rsbl.2024.0378 |
| Abstrakt: |
Haplodiploids-in particular, wasps-are the workhorses of sex-allocation research. This is owing to their unusual system of sex determination, which provides a ready means of sex ratio adjustment. Notably, their sexually asymmetrical mode of genetic inheritance leads mothers and fathers to come into conflict over the sex ratio of their offspring. In the simplest outbreeding scenario, a mother is favoured to employ an even sex ratio while a father prefers that all his mate's offspring are female. An important modulator of evolutionary conflict between mating partners is genetic relatedness, raising the possibility that this sex ratio conflict is reduced in low-dispersal settings with mating occurring between relatives. However, the impact of population viscosity on sex ratio conflict in haplodiploids remains unknown. Here, we develop and analyse a kin-selection model to investigate how the rate of dispersal modulates sex ratio conflict in a haplodiploid, viscous population setting. We find that population viscosity is associated with a reduction in the extent of sex ratio conflict-the effect being very weak under density-independent dispersal and much stronger under density-dependent dispersal. |
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MEDLINE |
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