Sexual conflict.

By D. Hosken, C. Archer, J. Mank. Current Biology, 2019

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Evolutionary conflict arises from differences in the fitness interests of replicating entities and has its roots in relatedness asymmetries. Every replicator is related to itself by 100%, but in most cases is less related to other replicators, which generates selfishness and conflicts of interest. Since this basic condition is the norm at many levels of biological organization, conflict is rife in biological systems. Sexual conflict, on which we focus here, is the evolutionary conflict that occurs between males and females because of their divergent fitness interests. Sexual conflict occurs despite sexual reproduction requiring some level of cooperation between males and females because the fitness interests of the sexes are nevertheless never perfectly aligned. In other words, males and females may agree on where they are going, but not necessarily on how to get there. Sexual conflict is a vast topic with relevance to many areas of biology and so here we restrict our focus to matters we think are of broadest interest.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Female preference for complex/novel signals in a spider (2006, background): “…(i.e., signaling and receiving costs, measurements of male quality, and mating costs) can be informative in assessing different models of sexual selection (Ryan 1990; Andersson 1994; Endler and Basolo 1998; Holland and Rice 1998; Chapman et al. 2003; Hebets and Maddison 2005; Rowe et al. 2005).”
Mating Strategies in Relation to Sexually Selected Infanticide in a Non‐Social Carnivore: the Brown Bear (2006, background): “This study illustrates male–female conflict in reproductive strategies (Chapman et al. 2003).”
The Evolution of Animal Nuptial Gifts (2012, background): “On the other hand, sexual conflict theory predicts the evolution of male glandular gifts that benefit males even though they may adversely affect female net fitness (Arnqvist and Nilsson, 2000; Arnqvist and Rowe, 2005; Rice, 1998).”
Current brood size and residual reproductive value predict offspring desertion in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides (2009, background): “In other species, it is muchmore likely that the fitness consequences of offspring desertion are frequency dependent (Székely et al. 1996; Balshine-Earn and Earn 1997; McNamara et al. 2000; Barta et al. 2002; Webb et al. 2002; Servedio and Hauber 2006; Steinhart et al. 2008) and so the decision to a”
Evolution: The First Four Billion Years (2009, background): “This antagonism is predicted to lead to a coevolutionary arms race where differing sets of traits between the sexes interact to determine the nature of male-female interactions (Arnqvist and Rowe 2005).”
Sex and social networking: the influence of male presence on social structure of female shark groups (2010, background): “In such societies, this can lead to differences in behavioral strategies between the sexes whereby males, who energetically invest little by way of gamete production and parental care, gain substantially greater genetic reward from mating events than females (Chapman et al. 2003).”
Cooperation and Coordination in Socially Monogamous Birds: Moving Away From a Focus on Sexual Conflict (2019, background): “Sexual conflict arises between current partners because the evolutionary trajectories of their individual life-histories are potentially different, and can be individually optimized, with respect to current and future investment (Parker et al., 2002; Arnqvist and Rowe, 2005).”
Sexual Selection and Static Allometry: The Importance of Function (2018, background): “Alternatively, males may coerce females, obliging them either by physical force or use of sensory traps, to perform reproductive processes that favor the male’s but not the female’s reproduction (e.g., oviposit earlier, reject later males; Arnqvist and Rowe 2005).”