10.5061/DRYAD.69P8CZ8X8
Miller, Zachary
0000-0001-9762-8301
University of Chicago
Digest: Does sexual conflict complicate a trade‐off between fecundity and
survival?
Dryad
dataset
2019
simulated data
Conceptual model
National Science Foundation
https://ror.org/021nxhr62
DGE-1746045
2019-10-24T00:00:00Z
2019-10-24T00:00:00Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13855
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Why do some species exhibit apparently suboptimal combinations of life
history traits? In a comparative study of lizard species, Reedy et al.
(2019) test the idea that variation in the trade‐off between fecundity and
survival can be explained by sexual conflict. Their results show that
degree of sexual conflict alone cannot explain this variation, and they
found a positive correlation between trade‐off optimality and the size of
males relative to females. These findings suggest a more complicated
picture of the fecundity‐survival trade‐off, possibly involving a third,
unknown source of selective pressure. This article corresponds to Reedy,
A.M., Evans, W.J., Cox, R.M., 2019. Sexual dimorphism explains residual
variance around the survival‐reproduction tradeoff in lizards:
implications for sexual conflict over life‐history evolution. Evolution.
doi: 10.1111/evo.13799.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.13799
R script to generate simulated data and figures (1a and 1b).