Mate Choice Contributes to the Maintenance of Shell Color Polymorphism in a Marine Snail via Frequency-Dependent Sexual Selection

Mate Choice Contributes to the Maintenance of Shell Color Polymorphism in a Marine Snail via Frequency-Dependent Sexual Selection

Natural color polymorphisms are widespread across animal species and usually have a simple genetic basis. This makes them an ideal system to study the evolutionary mechanisms responsible for maintaining biodiversity. In some populations of the intertidal snail Littorina fabalis, variation in shell c...

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Main Authors: Daniel Estévez, Eugene Kozminsky, Antonio Carvajal-Rodríguez, Armando Caballero, Rui Faria, Juan Galindo, Emilio Rolán-Alvarez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
mate choice
mate competition
Littorina fabalis
inbreeding effect
genetic drift
fitness components
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.614237/full

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