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SUBMITTER: Janicke T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5966593 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20180501 1878
Our improving knowledge of the animal tree of life consistently demonstrates that some taxa diversify more rapidly than others, but what contributes to this variation remains poorly understood. An influential hypothesis proposes that selection arising from competition for mating partners plays a key role in promoting speciation. However, empirical evidence showing a link between proxies of this sexual selection and species richness is equivocal. Here, we collected standardized metrics of sexual ...[more]