Not all pheromones aid communication. In the presence of females, males of the moth species Mythimna separata release a pheromone, benzaldehyde, that disrupts their rivals’ ability to detect the female sex pheromone. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/lxjT50YUykt
How can we reconcile #SexualSelection in plants and animals?
Some thoughts now published in a review led by Jeanne Tonnabel (@isemevol.bsky.social) in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social.
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Happy to share new paper in EcologyLetters
We show that aggressive male morphs make populations unstable & less resilient to heat stress @neelamporwal.bsky.social @jacek-radwan.bsky.social @robknell.bsky.social @ecoevoenviro.bsky.social @evobiolab.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Jon's new study in @natecoevo.nature.com shows that genetic rescue can increase long-term fitness despite elevating putative genetic load.
Interested? Check out our paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A short thread below 🧵
Coauthored by @jacek-radwan.bsky.social and @mkonczal.bsky.social
Inaugural lecture! I will be talking about my research on how mating systems alter evolutionary processes and why this is important. This is a public lecture and should be fun and accessible to everyone: all welcome. Links in next post. 🧪
"Sexually antagonistic selection: a review of the theory and its implications" doi.org/10.32942/X28M22
Sexual selection is a cornerstone of evolutionary biology in animals but remains underexplored
in plants, where empirical work is often disconnected from sexual selection theory.
A major barrier to cr...
Sexier in the city? Urban male great bowerbirds decorate bowers with human-made objects, creating brighter and more varied displays than rural males. Males strongly prefer human-made objects over natural ones, possibly boosting their appeal to females! shorturl.at/lcNY2 @royalsocietypublishing.org
New paper out in Evolution! @sse-evolution.bsky.social
From mating to sperm storage: density-dependent plasticity in pre- and post-copulatory shared mating traits 🦗
doi.org/10.1093/evol... #openaccess
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Our latest @ukri.org-funded work is out now in @pnas.org – Mating-dependent lifespan cost of sterol depletion in male Drosophila melanogaster. 4 years work from a terrific team of PDRAs, techs, students and collabs!
@liverpooluni.bsky.social @livuniresearch.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Using experiments on soil mites, we show that sexual selection associated with an armed and aggressive male phenotype can reduce population size and stability, which lowers their resilience against a...
An experiment with male-dimorphic mites shows long-lasting benefits of genetic rescue, regardless of type of male rescuer and despite introducing genetic load, in populations subjected to a thermal st...
www.nature.com
Neha Pandey
Abstract. Mating interactions depend on traits expressed jointly by males and females, yet the extent to which each sex controls variation in these shared
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
