10.5061/DRYAD.70RXWDBZX
Leith, Noah
0000-0002-5267-9014
Saint Louis University
Fowler-Finn, Kasey
Saint Louis University
Moore, Michael
Washington University in St. Louis
Data for: Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual
selection
Dryad
dataset
2021
FOS: Biological sciences
National Science Foundation
https://ror.org/021nxhr62
IOS-1656818
2022-07-02T00:00:00Z
2022-07-02T00:00:00Z
en
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6791365
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Thermal ecology and mate competition are both pervasive features of
ecological adaptation. A surge of recent work has uncovered the diversity
of ways in which temperature affects mating interactions and sexual
selection. However, the potential for thermal biology and reproductive
ecology to evolve together as organisms adapt to their thermal environment
has been underappreciated. Here, we develop a series of hypotheses
regarding (1) not only how thermal ecology affects mating system dynamics,
but also how mating dynamics can generate selection on thermal traits; and
(2) how the thermal consequences of mate competition favor the reciprocal
co-adaptation of thermal biology and sexual traits. We discuss our
hypotheses in the context of both pre-copulatory and post-copulatory
processes. We also call for future work integrating experimental and
phylogenetic comparative approaches to understand evolutionary feedbacks
between thermal ecology and sexual selection. Overall, studying reciprocal
feedbacks between thermal ecology and sexual selection may be necessary to
understand how organisms have adapted to the environments of the past and
could persist in the environments of the future.