Predation drives complex eco-evolutionary dynamics in sexually selected traits

• Published in: PLoS biology Vol. 21; no. 4; p. e3002059
• Main Authors: Lerch, Brian A, Servedio, Maria R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 03.04.2023; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Analysis; Animals; Biological Evolution; Biology and Life Sciences; Costs; Density; Density dependence; Displays; Dynamics; Ecological effects; Ecology and Environmental Sciences; Equilibrium; Evolution; Modelling; Phenotype; Polymorphism; Polymorphism, Genetic; Population density; Population Dynamics; Population genetics; Predation; Predation (Biology); Predator-prey interactions; Predator-prey simulation; Predators; Predatory Behavior; Prey; Quantitative genetics; Realism; Sexual selection; Sexual selection in animals; United States

Predation plays a role in preventing the evolution of ever more complicated sexual displays, because such displays often increase an individual's predation risk. Sexual selection theory, however, omits a key feature of predation in modeling costs to sexually selected traits: Predation is densit...