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This project investigates how genetic variation is maintained in animal populations despite sexual selection favoring elaborate traits. By studying wild great tits, it explores the roles of mate preferences, mutual choice, and non-genetic parental effects using advanced genetic analysis and experimental methods.
Across the animal kingdom, striking displays and ornaments are produced by sexual selection.
Current thinking is that females choose the most elaborate males because they display genetic benefits to offspring.
However, this should lead to a rapid decline in genetic variation within species.
Variation between individuals is the raw material upon which selection acts, so how is this variation maintained?
Solving this ‘paradox of the lek’ continues to be one of the most contentious issues in evolut…
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY
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