Sentence examples for antagonistic evolution from inspiring English sources

However, despite claims of the widespread occurence of sexual conflict fuelling arms races [1], credible empirical examples from a phylogenetic perspective, are largely lacking and the major question today is whether sexual conflict really generates sexually antagonistic evolution [6], [7].

Depending on the complexity of the environment, the ongoing antagonistic evolution can generate diverse populations among both phages and their bacterial hosts [ 2– 4].

The results do suggest that antagonistic evolution may be responsible in part for the lack of evolutionary change in female mate choice.

The restriction factor tetherin provides a good example of this Red Queen-style antagonistic evolution between the host and virus (Gupta et al., 2009a).

Because we identified a sexual conflict over timing of floral receptivity in C. heterophylla (Lankinen and Kiboi 2007; Madjidian et al. 2012 b ), which could lead to sexually antagonistic evolution (Madjidian and Lankinen 2009) it would be of interest to consider a potential interrelation between mating-system evolution and antagonistic evolution on timing of stigma receptivity.

Detailed investigation of immune genes would also be important, such as testing the prediction of higher rates of evolution for some immune genes caused by antagonistic evolution between pollen reproductive traits and pistil immune responses.

If these patterns are a result of host-parasite co-evolution, the Red Queen hypothesis of antagonistic co-evolution [19], [20] would predict that the sign of epistasis should frequently switch resulting in time lagged fluctuations of linkage disequilibria, which in turn would select for increased recombination rates [21] [23].

Such antagonistic co-evolution could then be the driving force behind the evolution of hermaphrodites' ejaculates towards complex mixtures of sperm and numerous seminal fluid components [as has been shown to occur in insects, 38].

As such, sexually antagonistic co-evolution may provide an important driving force for the evolution of hermaphroditic mating systems and possibly even speciation.

While sexual selection has long been regarded as the engine responsible for the co-evolution of male traits and female preferences [ 1], antagonistic co-evolution between the sexes has only recently gained growing attention (reviewed in [ 2]).

The antagonistic co-evolution caused by host-pathogen interactions is among the most important forces shaping organismal diversity.