When 'good genes' go bad: How sexual conflict can cause population collapse
Males of a species evolving traits for sexual conflict can cause problems for females, and, ultimately, the whole population.
Males of a species evolving traits for sexual conflict can cause problems for females, and, ultimately, the whole population.
Evolution
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Ecology
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Environment
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Duplicate copies of a gene shared by male and female fruit flies have evolved to resolve competing demands between the sexes. New genetic analysis by researchers at the University of Chicago describes how these copies have ...
Evolution
Feb 19, 2018
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(Phys.org) —A pair of researchers from the University of Edinburgh has found that a certain type of beetle mother engages in offspring cannibalism when pestered too much. In their paper published in Behavioral Ecology, ...
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Plants & Animals
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The discovery of a remarkably well-preserved monumental temple in Turkey — thought to be constructed during the time of King Solomon in the 10th/9th-centuries BC -- sheds light on the so-called Dark Age.
Archaeology
Apr 15, 2009
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Biodiversity data collection is growing exponentially. The increase is driven in part by international commitments to conservation, market investments and technological advances, and the growing urgency of human impacts including ...
Ecology
Jan 16, 2024
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For years, scientists have debated whether humans or the climate have caused the population of large mammals to decline dramatically over the past several thousand years. A new study from Aarhus University confirms that climate ...
Ecology
Dec 14, 2023
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