Reproductive character displacement: insights from genital morphometrics in damselfly hybrid zones

• Published in: Heredity Vol. 133; no. 5; pp. 355 - 368
• Main Authors: Ballén-Guapacha, Andrea Viviana, Ospina-Garcés, Sandra Milena, Guevara, Roger, Sánchez-Guillén, Rosa Ana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.11.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: 631/181; 631/181/759; Allopatry; Animals; Barriers; Biological Evolution; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Character displacement; Coevolution; Copulation; Cytogenetics; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Female; Females; Genetic diversity; Genitalia - anatomy & histology; Genotype & phenotype; Geography; Geometric morphometrics; Human Genetics; Hybrid zones; Hybridization; Hybridization, Genetic; Hypotheses; Male; Males; Mechanical properties; Morphometry; Odonata - anatomy & histology; Odonata - genetics; Odonata - physiology; Phenotype; Plant Genetics and Genomics; Reproduction; Reproductive Isolation; Sex differences; Sympatry

Reproductive Character Displacement (RCD) refers to the phenomenon of greater differences in reproductive characters between two species when they occur in sympatry compared to when they occur in allopatry to prevent maladaptive hybridization. We explored whether reinforcement of a mechanical barrie...