Adaptation versus pleiotropy: why do males harm their mates?

By Edward H. Morrow, G. Arnqvist, S. Pitnick. 2003

174 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Martin Edvardsson
2. D. Canal
3. D. Hosken
4. Tom Tregenza
5. G. Arnqvist
6. Leigh W. Simmons
7. Mari Katvala
8. J. Rönn

In Insect Science

1. Martin Edvardsson
2. D. Canal
3. Tom Tregenza
4. D. Hosken
5. Mari Katvala
6. J. Rönn
7. P. Stockley
8. N. Wedell

Citations in the corpus

• Why do male Callosobruchus maculatus harm their mates (2005, background): “Male traits that have the side effect of being harmful to females can be favored by selection, provided the benefits to males from having these traits are greater than the costs males incur by reducing the offspring production of their mates (Morrow et al., 2003; Parker, 1979).”
• Sexual selection and genital evolution. (2004, background): “As yet, there is relatively little experimental support for either of these hypotheses [37, 38 ].”
• The costs of mating and egg production in Callosobruchus seed beetles (2006, background): “This scenario has recently gained support (Tribolium castaneum, Callosobruchus maculatus, Drosophila melanogaster and S. cynipsea: Hosken et al. 2003; Morrow et al. 2003).”
• Sexual harassment in live-bearing fishes (Poeciliidae): comparing courting and noncourting species (2007, background): “In many animals, male mating behavior can injure the female or even cause early death of the female (Rowe et al. 1994; Reale et al. 1996; Crudgington and Siva-Jothy 2000; Stutt and Siva-Jothy 2001; Blanckenhorn et al. 2002; Hosken et al. 2003; Morrow et al. 2003 ).”
• Complexity of seminal fluid: a review (2006, background): “One explanation for such an effect is that post-copulation female deaths are unselected effects of adaptations that benefit males (Parker 1979; Chapman et al. 1995; Morrow et al. 2003).”
• Sexual conflict and life histories (2006, background): “This adaptive harm hypothesis (Morrow et al. 2003) suggests that it is the reduction in survival of the female that the damage causes that is the primary effect, and that this invokes consequences that increase male fitness (Michiels 1998; Lessells 1999; Johnstone & Keller 2000).”
• The effects of copulation duration in the bruchid beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (2006, result): “maculatus (Edvardsson and Tregenza, 2005; Morrow et al., 2003).”