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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing papers of a Biological character. Royal Society (Great Britain) Année : 2012

Intralocus sexual conflict for fitness: sexually antagonistic alleles for testosterone

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Intralocus sexual conflict occurs when a trait encoded by the same genetic locus in the two sexes has different optima in males and females. Such conflict is widespread across taxa, however, the shared phenotypic traits that mediate the conflict are largely unknown. We examined whether the sex hormone, testosterone (T), that controls sexual differentiation, contributes to sexually antagonistic fitness variation in the bank vole, Myodes glareolus. We compared (opposite-sex) sibling reproductive fitness in the bank vole after creating divergent selection lines for T. This study shows that selection for T was differentially associated with son versus daughter reproductive success, causing a negative correlation in fitness between full siblings. Our results demonstrate the presence of intralocus sexual conflict for fitness in this small mammal and that sexually antagonistic selection is acting on T. We also found a negative correlation in fitness between parents and their opposite-sex progeny (e. g. father-daughter), highlighting a dilemma for females, as the indirect genetic benefits of selecting reproductively successful males (high T) are lost with daughters. We discuss mechanisms that may mitigate this disparity between progeny quality.

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hal-00722783 , version 1 (04-08-2012)

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Suzanne C Mills, Esa Koskela, Tapio Mappes. Intralocus sexual conflict for fitness: sexually antagonistic alleles for testosterone. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing papers of a Biological character. Royal Society (Great Britain), 2012, 279 (1735), pp.1889-1895. ⟨10.1098/rspb.2011.2340⟩. ⟨hal-00722783⟩
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