Evolution of sexual preferences in quantitative characters

DOI10.1016/0040-5809(90)90017-PMaRDI QIDQ805522zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Samuel Karlin, John K. Raper

Publication date 1990

Published in Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-5809(90)90017-p

zbMATH Keywords

female mating preferenceFisher's runaway processGaussian distribution of phenotypesgenetic covariance evolutionmetric characterquantitative male secondary sexual characterrunaway modelssexual preferencessexual selectionviabilityzygotic distribution of phenotypes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15)

Review text

It is studied how a metric character and sexual preferences for that character evolve on the base of Fisher's ``runaway process [\textit{R. A. Fisher}, The genetical theory of natural selection (1958)]. The phenotypic trait in the male and female is described by a 2-vector x, where the first coordinate \(x_ 1\) gives the character value and the second coordinate \(x_ 2\) the preference value. Analogously, y denotes the female trait vector. It is assumed that the viabilities of males and females as well as the probability for a male of type x and a female of type y to mate depend only on \(x_ 1\) and \(y_ 2\). Furthermore, the phenotypic values of offspring are assumed to be given by the midparental values plus a random perturbation. Given the viabilities of males and females as well as the conditional probability for a male and a female to mate, the dynamics of the covariance matrix and the mean of the zygotic distribution of phenotypes are studied. A comprehensive discussion of the results (including comparisons to other runaway models) concludes the paper.

Recommendations

• Quantitative genetic models of sexual selection by male choice
• A long-term genetic model for the evolution of sexual preference: the theories of Fisher and Zahavi re-examined
• Replicator-dynamics models of sexual conflict
• Runaway sexual selection with paternal transmission of the male trait and gene-culture determination of the female preference
• Structural instability of models of sexual selection

Cites work

• A New Technique to Design Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antenna by Fractal Defected Ground Structure
• General analysis of frequency-dependent sexual selection at a multi- allelic locus
• Models of multifactorial inheritance: IV. Asymmetric transmission for a scalar phenotype
• The multiple-locus symmetric fertility model

Cited in

(11)

• The evolutionary dynamics of quantitative characters
• Structural instability of models of sexual selection
• Sexual selection with a culturally transmitted mating preference
• Revealed homothetic preference and technology
• Statistical aspects of evolution under natural selection, with implications for the advantage of sexual reproduction
• A long-term genetic model for the evolution of sexual preference: the theories of Fisher and Zahavi re-examined
• Sex and evolutionary stability
• Fisher's contributions to the theory of sexual selection as the basis of recent research
• Testing a hypothesis for the evolution of sex
• Quantitative genetic models of sexual selection by male choice
• Runaway sexual selection with paternal transmission of the male trait and gene-culture determination of the female preference

This page was built for publication: Evolution of sexual preferences in quantitative characters

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q805522)