Sex differences in local adaptation : what can we learn from reciprocal transplant experiments?
Svensson, Erik I LU
; Goedert, Debora
; Gómez-Llano, Miguel A
LU
; Spagopoulou, Foteini
; Nava-Bolaños, Angela
LU
and Booksmythe, Isobel
(2018)
In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
373(1757).
- Abstract
Local adaptation is of fundamental interest to evolutionary biologists. Traditionally, local adaptation has been studied using reciprocal transplant experiments to quantify fitness differences between residents and immigrants in pairwise transplants between study populations. Previous studies have detected local adaptation in some cases, but others have shown lack of adaptation or even maladaptation. Recently, the importance of different fitness components, such as survival and fecundity, to local adaptation have been emphasized. Here, we address another neglected aspect in studies of local adaptation: sex differences. Given the ubiquity of sexual dimorphism in life histories and phenotypic traits, this neglect is surprising, but may be... (More)
Local adaptation is of fundamental interest to evolutionary biologists. Traditionally, local adaptation has been studied using reciprocal transplant experiments to quantify fitness differences between residents and immigrants in pairwise transplants between study populations. Previous studies have detected local adaptation in some cases, but others have shown lack of adaptation or even maladaptation. Recently, the importance of different fitness components, such as survival and fecundity, to local adaptation have been emphasized. Here, we address another neglected aspect in studies of local adaptation: sex differences. Given the ubiquity of sexual dimorphism in life histories and phenotypic traits, this neglect is surprising, but may be partly explained by differences in research traditions and terminology in the fields of local adaptation and sexual selection. Studies that investigate differences in mating success between resident and immigrants across populations tend to be framed in terms of reproductive and behavioural isolation, rather than local adaptation. We briefly review the published literature that bridges these areas and suggest that reciprocal transplant experiments could benefit from quantifying both male and female fitness components. Such a more integrative research approach could clarify the role of sex differences in the evolution of local adaptations.This article is part of the theme issue 'Linking local adaptation with the evolution of sex differences'.
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- author
- Svensson, Erik I
LU
; Goedert, Debora
; Gómez-Llano, Miguel A
LU
; Spagopoulou, Foteini
; Nava-Bolaños, Angela
LU
and Booksmythe, Isobel
- organization
- publishing date
- 2018-08-27
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- volume
- 373
- issue
- 1757
- article number
- 20170420
- pages
- 11 pages
- publisher
- Royal Society Publishing
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85062581746
- pmid:30150219
- ISSN
- 1471-2970
- DOI
- 10.1098/rstb.2017.0420
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- © 2018 The Author(s).
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