Battles between the sexes occur at the genetic level when traits that would be advantageous for one sex are disadvantageous for the other. The Genetics and Biology of Sexual Conflict discusses the basis for this sexual conflict and its role as a driver of evolution.
Preface
Foreword
The Sexual Cascade and the Rise of Pre-Ejaculatory (Darwinian) Sexual Selection, Sex Roles, and Sexual Conflict
Geoff A. Parker
The Relationship Between Sexual Selection and Sexual Conflict
Hanna Kokko and Michael D. Jennions
Specialists and Generalists: The Sexual Ecology of the Genome
David Haig, Francisco Úbeda, and Manus M. Patten
Sexual Conflict and Seminal Fluid Proteins: A Dynamic Landscape of Sexual Interactions
Laura K. Sirot, Alex Wong, Tracey Chapman, and Mariana F. Wolfner
Paradox of Mother’s Curse and the Maternally Provisioned Offspring Microbiome
Michael J. Wade
The Evolution of Sexually Antagonistic Phenotypes
Jennifer C. Perry and Locke Rowe
Sexual Conflict, Lifespan, and Ageing
Margo I. Adler and Russell Bonduriansky
Copulatory Wounding and Traumatic Insemination
Klaus Reinhardt, Nils Anthes, and Rolanda Lange
Sexual Conflict From Extrapair Matings in Birds
Alexis S. Chaine, Robert Montgomerie, and Bruce E. Lyon
Sexually Antagonistic Zygotic Drive: A New Form of Genetic Conflict Between the Sex Chromosomes
Urban Friberg and William R. Rice
Sex Chromosome Drive
Quentin Helleu, Pierre R. Gérard, and Catherine Montchamp-Moreau
Sex-Biased Gene Expression and Sexual Conflict Throughout Development
Fiona C. Ingleby, Ilona Flis, and Edward H. Morrow
Infanticide as Sexual Conflict: Coevolution of Male Strategies and Female Counterstrategies
Ryne A. Palombit
Human Homosexuality: A Paradigmatic Arena for Sexually Antagonistic Selection?
Andrea Camperio Ciani, Umberto Battaglia, and Giovanni Zanzotto
Sexual Conflict Between Parents: Offspring Desertion and Asymmetrical Parental Care
Tamás Székely
Sexual Conflict in Hermaphrodites
Lukas Schärer, Tim Janicke, and Steven A. Ramm
Patterns and Mechanisms of Evolutionary Transitions Between Genetic Sex-Determining Systems
G. Sander van Doorn
Reproductive Parasitism: Maternally Inherited Symbionts in a Biparental World
Gregory D.D. Hurst and Crystal L. Frost
Sexual Conflict and Sperm Competition
D. A. Edward, P. Stockley, and D. J. Hosken
Conflict on the Sex Chromosomes: Cause, Effect, and Complexity
Judith E. Mank, David J. Hosken, and Nina Wedell
Is Sexual Conflict an “Engine of Speciation”?
Sergey Gavrilets
Sexual Cannibalism as a Manifestation of Sexual Conflict
Jutta M. Schneider
Mechanisms and Evidence of Genital Coevolution: The Roles of Natural Selection, Mate Choice, and Sexual Conflict
P. L. R. Brennan and R. O. Prum
Index