Pleiotropic fitness effects across sexes and ages in the Drosophila genome and transcriptome
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Wong, H. W. S., & Holman, L. (2023)
Pleiotropic fitness effects across sexes and ages in the Drosophila genome and transcriptome. Evolution, 77(12), 2642–2655. https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpad163
Selection varies between categories of individuals, with far-reaching ramifications: Sex-specific selection can impede or accelerate adaptation, and differences in selection b...
Polygenic signals of sex differences in selection in humans from the UK Biobank
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Ruzicka, F., Holman, L., & Connallon, T. (2022)
Polygenic signals of sex differences in selection in humans from the UK Biobank. PLoS Biology, 20(9), Article e3001768. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001768
Sex differences in the fitness effects of genetic variants can influence the rate of adaptation and the maintenance of genetic variation. For example, “sexually antagonistic” ...
Experimental sexual selection affects the evolution of physiological and life‐history traits
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Garlovsky, M. D., Holman, L., Brooks, A. L., Novicic, Z. K., & Snook, R. R. (2022)
Experimental sexual selection affects the evolution of physiological and life‐history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 35(5), 742-751. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14003
Sexual selection and sexual conflict are expected to affect all aspects of the phenotype, not only traits that are directly involved in reproduction. Here, we show coordinated...
Social immunity in the honey bee: do immune-challenged workers enter enforced or self-imposed exile?
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Conroy, T. E., & Holman, L. (2022)
Social immunity in the honey bee: do immune-challenged workers enter enforced or self-imposed exile?. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03139-z
Animals living in large colonies are especially vulnerable to infectious pathogens and may therefore have evolved additional defences. Eusocial insects supplement their physio...
A comment on 'The adaptive value of gluttony: predators mediate the life history trade‐offs of satiation threshold' by Pruitt & Krauel (2010)
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Postma, E., Gonzalez‐Voyer, A., & Holman, L. (2021)
A comment on 'The adaptive value of gluttony: predators mediate the life history trade‐offs of satiation threshold' by Pruitt & Krauel (2010). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 34(12), 1989-1993. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13885
Inspection of the data that accompany Pruitt and Krauel's study of individual variation in satiation threshold and a comparison of these data with the Materials and Methods an...
Sexual selection can partly explain low frequencies of Segregation Distorter alleles
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Keaney, T. A., Jones, T. M., & Holman, L. (2021)
Sexual selection can partly explain low frequencies of Segregation Distorter alleles. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1959), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1190
The Segregation Distorter (SD) allele found in Drosophila melanogaster distorts Mendelian inheritance in heterozygous males by causing developmental failure of non-SD spermati...
Sexual selection affects the evolution of physiological and life history traits
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Snook, R. R., Brooks, A. L., Holman, L., & Garlovsky, S. D. Sexual selection affects the evolution of physiological and life history traits)
Snook, R. R., Brooks, A. L., Holman, L., & Garlovsky, S. D. Sexual selection affects the evolution of physiological and life history traits
Sexual selection and sexual conflict are expected to affect all aspects of the phenotype, not only traits that are directly involved in reproduction. Here, we show coordinated...
Male‐biased sexual selection, but not sexual dichromatism, predicts speciation in birds
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Cally, J. G., Stuart‐Fox, D., Holman, L., Dale, J., & Medina, I. (2021)
Male‐biased sexual selection, but not sexual dichromatism, predicts speciation in birds. Evolution, 75(4), 931-944. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14183
Sexual selection is thought to shape phylogenetic diversity by affecting speciation or extinction rates. However, the net effect of sexual selection on diversification is hard...
Resistance to natural and synthetic gene drive systems
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Price, T. A. R., Windbichler, N., Unckless, R. L., Sutter, A., Runge, J., Ross, P. A., …Lindholm, A. K. (2020)
Resistance to natural and synthetic gene drive systems. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 33(10), 1345-1360. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13693
Scientists are rapidly developing synthetic gene drive elements intended for release into natural populations. These are intended to control or eradicate disease vectors and p...
Sibling rivalry versus mother's curse: can kin competition facilitate a response to selection on male mitochondria?
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Keaney, T. A., Wong, H. W. S., Dowling, D. K., Jones, T. M., & Holman, L. (2020)
Sibling rivalry versus mother's curse: can kin competition facilitate a response to selection on male mitochondria?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1930), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0575
Assuming that fathers never transmit mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) to their offspring, mitochondrial mutations that affect male fitness are invisible to direct selection on males,...