Sexual Conflict
Optimizing reproduction in the Tasmanian echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus: the influence of an obligatory hibernation period and intense sexual conflict
... and sexual conflict are condition-dependent and a range of environmental and ecological factors including environmental variability (Magellan and Magurran 2006, Darden and Croft 2008, Reinhardt et ...affect ...
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Potential for sexual conflict assessed via testosterone mediated transcriptional changes in liver and muscle of a songbird
... is sexual conflict over testosterone levels in this system – above-average testosterone levels are selectively advantageous for males and disadvantageous for females (see Gerlach and Ketterson, 2013; ...
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Sex biased dispersal, kin selection and the evolution of sexual conflict
... There is growing interest in resolving the curious disconnect between the fields of kin selection and sexual selection. Rankin’s (2011, J. Evol. Biol. 24, 71 – 81) theoretical study of the impact of kin selection ...
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Intralocus Sexual Conflict Can Drive the Evolution of Genomic Imprinting
... functions, sexual conflict can drive the evolution of genomic im- and this work will be facilitated by new tools of genomic printing at loci under sex-specific ...intralocus sexual conflict by ...
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Sexual conflict explains the extraordinary diversity of mechanisms regulating mitochondrial inheritance
... The sexual conflict over the control of cytoplasmic inherit- ance, with males benefiting from mitochondrial leakage and females favouring strict UPI, therefore predicts re- peated turnover of the molecular ...
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To signal or not to signal? Chemical communication by urine-borne signals mirrors sexual conflict in crayfish
... Here, we investigate in the signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) the function of urine signalling in reproduc- tive interactions by studying the context of release as well as the receiver response. Crayfish live at ...
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Sexual conflict maintains variation at an insecticide resistance locus
... intralocus sexual conflict [5 – 8]. This conflict is pervasive [9 – 12], oc- curring whenever males and females differ in their optimal values for shared traits ...of sexual conflict ...
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Optimizing reproduction in the Tasmanian echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus: the influence of an obligatory hibernation period and intense sexual conflict
... The echidna is a solitary, seasonally breeding monotreme mammal with a mating system characterized by high levels of intra-male competition for access to receptive females. Throughout Australia the breeding season ...
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Sexual conflict in action: An antagonistic relationship between maternal and paternal sex allocation in the tammar wallaby, Notamacropus eugenii
... that sexual conflict between parents may cause mothers to adjust offspring sex ratios after birth, through abandonment of male pouch young and reactivation of diapaused ...
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A reply to Nieberding and Holveck: beyond experimental design and proximate mechanisms - mate choice in the face of sexual conflict
... reflects sexual conflict rather than cooperation as such males are ‘preferred’ either mistakenly or as a matter of convenience, which is supported by detrimental effects of mating with older males on egg ...
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Transcriptomes of parents identify parenting strategies and sexual conflict in a subsocial beetle
... Parenting in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides is complex and, unusually, the sex and number of parents that can be present is flexible. Such flexibility is expected to involve specialized behaviour by the two ...
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Release from intralocus sexual conflict? Evolved loss of a male sexual trait demasculinizes female gene expression
... Hypothetical effects of male sexual trait loss on IASC at the level of gene.. transcript assumed to be pleiotropically influenced by a sexual trait locus, thus.[r] ...
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Commentary: Consensual Adolescent Sexual Activity With Adult Partners—Conflict Between Confidentiality and Physician Reporting Requirements Under Child Abuse Laws
... Child protection statutes may contain ambiguous language that produce dilemmas for physicians who may have a legal obligation to report sexual activity between an adolescent and an adult part- ner, yet desire to ...
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Piloting community-based medical care for survivors of sexual assault in conflict-affected Karen State of eastern Burma
... Congo (DRC) has offered physician- and nurse-staffed mobile health services and has engaged local community members to encourage health-seeking behavior around sexual assault [7]. When the components of WHO’s ...
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CONFLICT AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
... international conflict in the Nuclear Age, contended that “though Von Clausewitz once described ‘war’ as the continuation of diplomacy by other means, modern diplomats are faced with the prospect that war may ...
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War is not yet over. Community Perceptions of Sexual Violence and its Underpinnings in Eastern DRC. Understanding conflict. Building peace.
... reading sexual violence simply as a consequence of impunity, we need to understand sexual violence as one, if not the indicator of ongoing, unresolved social and political conflicts, especially where those ...
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In the face of war: examining sexual vulnerabilities of Acholi adolescent girls living in displacement camps in conflict-affected Northern Uganda
... to sexual and intimate partner violence does not necessarily end with the cessation of armed conflict; in fact in many instances their vulnerability is exa- cerbated by reconstruction programmes that fail ...
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Sexual and gender-based violence in areas of armed conflict: a systematic review of mental health and psychosocial support interventions
... (post) conflict environments with research methodology and the participants themselves having to adjust in order to cope with the rapid socio-political and economic changes impacting upon ...
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Rejection, acceptance and the spectrum between: understanding male attitudes and experiences towards conflict-related sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
... of sexual violence in eastern DRC have stated that the stigma and shame they feel after rape can be more traumatic than the attack itself, since it may lead to isola- tion and, in many cases, women being disowned ...
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Understanding processes of risk and protection that shape the sexual and reproductive health of young women affected by conflict: the price of protection
... that conflict breaks down many protective factors across different environments that might have previously been put into ...poor sexual outcomes through engaging in risky behav- ...during conflict ...
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