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

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

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 …

Concerted evolution of metabolic rate, economics of mating, ecology, and pace of life across seed beetles

G Arnqvist, J Rönn, C Watson… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Malefemale coevolution has taken different paths among … test: P < 0.001), the strength
and even sign of this effect varied … internal injuries caused by harmful male genitalia. We were …

[HTML][HTML] Sexual conflict drives micro-and macroevolution of sexual dimorphism in immunity

B Bagchi, Q Corbel, I Khan, E Payne, D Banerji… - BMC biology, 2021 - Springer
… Finally, female (but not male) PO activity shows correlated … of male genitalia across 12
species of seed beetles, … harm inflicted by males resulting in a coevolutionary arms race …

Metapopulation structure modulates sexual antagonism

E Rodríguez-Expósito, F García-González - Evolution Letters, 2021 - academic.oup.com
coevolution and led to reduced resistance in females from … We used the seed beetle
Callosobruchus maculatus as a … a relationship between the degree of male-induced genital

[PDF][PDF] Experimental evolution of genital spines and injury to females in seed beetles

R Nylund - 2022 - diva-portal.org
… Do longer genital spines in male seed beetles function as better anchors during mating? …
Coevolution between harmful male genitalia and female resistance in seed beetles. …

Sexual selection increased offspring production via evolution of male and female traits

D Kyogoku, T Sota - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
seed beetles are frequently used for the study of sexual selection and sexual conflict. Males
have a spiny penis and produce toxic … evolution (ie, male harm and female resistance more …