A Comparative Study of the Role of Sex-Specific Condition Dependence in the Evolution of Sexually Dimorphic Traits.
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...…Kleiber, 1947; Voje, Hansen, Egset, Bolstad, & Pelabon, 2014), others highlight the potential of particularly rapid divergence (Casasa et al., 2017; Emlen, 1996; Frankino, Zwaan, Stern, & Brakefield, 2005; Puniamoorthy, Blanckenhorn, & Schäfer, 2012; Rohner & Blanckenhorn, 2018; Wilkinson, 1993)....
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...…Morf, Reusch, & Reuter, 2000; Dmitriew & Blanckenhorn, 2012, Puniamoorthy, Blanckenhorn, & Schäfer, 2012; but see Ingram, Laamanen, Puniamoorthy, & Meier, 2008) as well as male–male competition (Busso & Blanckenhorn, 2018; Rohner & Blanckenhorn, 2018; Rohner, Blanckenhorn, & Puniamoorthy, 2016)....
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...Similarly, sex‐ ual dimorphism in fore femur width, and its condition dependence, co‐varies with the mating system in sepsids, suggesting sexual se‐ lection to act on fore femur morphology (Rohner & Blanckenhorn, 2018)....
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...To test for a general relationship independent of species and trait identity, we pooled all data and used a mixed model with species and trait as crossed random effects (using the lme4 R package; Bates et al. 2015)....
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...That is, sexual selection may promote further evolutionary amplification of the hyperallometric male slope (Gould 1966; Bonduriansky 2007c), thus strengthening the relationship between sex-specific condition dependence and sexual dimorphism of particular secondary sexual and other morphologically…...
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...However, even under consistent and sexually antagonistic directional selection, the evolution of sexual dimorphism in any trait must be hampered by genetic correlations between sexes (Lande 1980)....
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...…recent, and in response, sex-specific condition dependence (i.e., plasticity) may be more likely to evolve than functional genetic sex differences, particularly if plasticity can better alleviate any constraints imposed by strong genetic correlations between sexes (as argued above; Lande 1980)....
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...…dependence—a form of phenotypic plasticity linking an individual’s genomewide genetic quality to trait expression under a given amount of resources (Rowe and Houle 1996)—allows for a flexible trade-off of survival costs that arise through trait exaggeration with the corresponding reproductive…...
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...Thus, in species subjected to an increased degree of sex-specific directional selection on a given trait (e.g., followingmating system evolution), sexual dimorphism should become amplified and so should the benefit of condition dependence (Rowe and Houle 1996)....
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...…bear particular traits typically varies to the extent that only individuals in good condition—that is, those with access to more metabolic resources (Rowe and Houle 1996)—will be able to afford expressing a certain degree of trait exaggeration that then can act as an indicator of their intrinsic…...
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...This contrasts with cases where dimorphism is associated with selection driven by ecological nichedifferentiationbetween sexes (i.e., ecological sexual dimorphism; Shine 1989, 1991; Temeles et al. 2000)....
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...…does not impose major constraints, the displacement from the viability selection optimum reflects the net costs and benefits of (exaggerated) trait expression (which may not be the case if dimorphism is due to ecological character displacement; e.g., Shine 1989, 1991; Temeles et al. 2000)....
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...…optima, resulting from variation in the strength, shape, and direction of natural and sexual selection between the sexes (Hedrick and Temeles 1989; Shine 1989; Blanckenhorn 2005; Fairbairn et al. 2007; although the specific role of ecology in shaping sexual dimorphisms remains contentious,…...
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