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- Title
INTERLOCUS SEXUALLY ANTAGONISTIC COEVOLUTION CAN CREATE INDIRECT SELECTION FOR INCREASED RECOMBINATION.
- Authors
Dapper, Amy L.; Lively, Curtis M.
- Abstract
The ubiquity of recombination in nature is a paradox because it breaks up combinations of alleles favored by natural selection. Theoretical work has shown that antagonistic coevolution between hosts and parasites can result in rapid fluctuations in epistasis that can create a short-term advantage to recombination. Here, we show that another kind of antagonistic coevolution, interlocus sexually antagonistic coevolution (SAC), can also create indirect selection for modifiers that increase the rate of recombination, and that it can lead to very high levels of recombination at equilibrium. Recombination is favored because interlocus SAC creates heterogeneity in the strength and direction of selection, both within and between generations, which maintains an excess of disadvantageous haplotypes in the population. This result is similar to and consistent with dynamics of fluctuating epistasis produced in models of host-parasite coevolution. However, the conditions under which interlocus SAC provides an advantage to recombination are more permissive.
- Subjects
BIOLOGICAL evolution; RECOMBINATION (Chemistry); NATURAL selection; ALLELES; HAPLOTYPES; LINKAGE disequilibrium
- Publication
Evolution, 2014, Vol 68, Issue 4, p1216
- ISSN
0014-3820
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/evo.12338