Males evolve to be more harmful under increased sexual conflict intensity in a seed beetle

KB McNamara, NS Sloan, SE Kershaw… - Behavioral …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… The penis of the seed beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus, is … that coevolution in male
persistence and female resistancefemale reproductive tract damage between females mated to …

Quantifying variation in female internal genitalia: no evidence for plasticity in response to sexual conflict risk in a seed beetle

BW Wyber, LR Dougherty… - Proceedings of …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… The evolution of harmful traits in one sex is expected to … resist harm, initiating sexually
antagonistic coevolution between the … that coevolution of harmful male traits and female resistance

Sexual conflict and correlated evolution between male persistence and female resistance traits in the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus

LR Dougherty, E van Lieshout… - Proceedings of …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
between harmful male genital morphology and female reproductive tract morphology and
immune function across 13 populations of the seed beetlecoevolution of male and female

Direct and indirect effects of male genital elaboration in female seed beetles

G Arnqvist, K Grieshop, C Hotzy… - Proceedings of …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… of coevolution between male genitalia and female traits … spines are both under direct selection
to minimize harm but are … , that the strength of condition-dependent expression of genital

Female‐driven intersexual coevolution in beetle genitalia

BC Genevcius, J Baker, FM Bianchi… - Journal of evolutionary …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… composes part of the male terminalia and the female ovipositor. Our results … malefemale
genital coevolution and provide solid statistical evidence for a female‐initiated coevolutionary

Selection on an antagonistic behavioral trait can drive rapid genital coevolution in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides

PE Hopwood, ML Head, EJ Jordan, MJ Carter… - …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
… For example, in seed beetles male genital spines may reduce the chance of an individual …
We observed female behavioral resistance consisting of wrestling, kicking, and curling the …

Rapid differentiation and asynchronous coevolution of male and female genitalia in stink bugs

BC Genevcius, DS Caetano… - Journal of evolutionary …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
male and female external genitalia of stink bugs coevolve. Further, we estimate the rates of
evolution of male and female genitalia … In the seed bug Nysius huttoni, whose general aspect …

Significance of constraints on genital coevolution: Why do female Drosophila appear to cooperate with males by accepting harmful matings?

Y Kamimura - Evolution, 2016 - academic.oup.com
… If there is genetic variation in the male ability to overcome female resistance, it results in …
For example, females of most bed bug species have a guiding structure (a slit or window in the …

Impact of sexually antagonistic genital morphologies on female reproduction and wild population demography

Y Takami, T Fukuhara, J Yokoyama, M Kawata - Evolution, 2018 - academic.oup.com
beetle Carabus insulicola with elaborate male and female … longer female genitalia are resistant
to this male harassment via … coevolutionary divergence between male and female genital

No evidence for divergence in male harmfulness or female resistance in response to changes in the opportunity for dispersal

SJ Lymbery, B Wyber, JL Tomkins… - Journal of evolutionary …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… of dispersal in female and male seed beetles Callosobruchus … This can result in sexually
antagonistic coevolution (SAC) … through precopulatory harassment and genital spines. More …