THE EVOLUTION OF ASYMMETRY IN SEXUAL ISOLATION: A MODEL AND A TEST CASE
| Autor: | Paul A. Verrell, Stevan J. Arnold, Stephen G. Tilley |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine biology Ecology media_common.quotation_subject Desmognathus ochrophaeus Allopatric speciation Reproductive isolation biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Asymmetry Divergence Courtship 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology Evolutionary biology Sexual selection biology.animal Genetics Salamander General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Evolution. 50:1024-1033 |
| ISSN: | 1558-5646 0014-3820 |
| Popis: | We constructed a model for the evolution of sexual isolation by extending Lande's (1981) model of sexual selection. The model predicts that asymmetric sexual isolation is a transient phenomenon, characteristic of intermediate stages of divergence in sexually selected traits. Unlike the Kaneshiro (1976, 1980) proposal, our model does not depend upon drift and the loss of courtship elements to produce asymmetries in sexual isolation. According to our model, the direction of evolution cannot be predicted from asymmetry in sexual isolation. We tested some features of the model using data from an experimental study of sexual isolation in the salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus. We tested for sexual isolation between 12 allopatric populations and found significant asymmetry in sexual isolation in about a quarter of the test cases. The highest degrees of asymmetry were associated with intermediate levels of divergence. A curvilinear relationship between isolation asymmetry and divergence was predicted by our model and was supported by statistical analysis of the salamander data. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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