The relationship between sexual selection and sexual conflict

Kokko, Hanna; Jennions, Michael

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The relationship between sexual selection and sexual conflict

Date

2014

Authors

Kokko, Hanna

Jennions, Michael

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

Abstract

Evolutionary conflicts of interest arisewhenever genetically different individuals interact and their routes to fitness maximization differ. Sexual selection favors traits that increase an individual's competitiveness to acquire mates and fertilizations.