Abstract:There are many diverse strategies that males and females use to increase their fitness, some of which may not align with the ideal fitness outcomes for their sexual partners. This fitness misalignment generates sexual conflict, which has been a subject of thorough research by evolutionary biologists (Arnqvist & Rowe, 2005;Chapman, 2006;Fricke et al., 2010). Such sexual conflict can be relatively inconspicuous, for example on a molecular scale after copulation has occurred, where male seminal proteins can have … Show more
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