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SUBMITTER: Portik DM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6934645 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Portik Daniel M DM Bell Rayna C RC Blackburn David C DC Bauer Aaron M AM Barratt Christopher D CD Branch William R WR Burger Marius M Channing Alan A Colston Timothy J TJ Conradie Werner W Dehling J Maximilian JM Drewes Robert C RC Ernst Raffael R Greenbaum Eli E Gvoždík Václav V Harvey James J Hillers Annika A Hirschfeld Mareike M Jongsma Gregory F M GFM Kielgast Jos J Kouete Marcel T MT Lawson Lucinda P LP Leaché Adam D AD Loader Simon P SP Lötters Stefan S Meijden Arie Van Der AV Menegon Michele M Müller Susanne S Nagy Zoltán T ZT Ofori-Boateng Caleb C Ohler Annemarie A Papenfuss Theodore J TJ Rößler Daniela D Sinsch Ulrich U Rödel Mark-Oliver MO Veith Michael M Vindum Jens J Zassi-Boulou Ange-Ghislain AG McGuire Jimmy A JA
Systematic biology 20191101 6
Theory predicts that sexually dimorphic traits under strong sexual selection, particularly those involved with intersexual signaling, can accelerate speciation and produce bursts of diversification. Sexual dichromatism (sexual dimorphism in color) is widely used as a proxy for sexual selection and is associated with rapid diversification in several animal groups, yet studies using phylogenetic comparative methods to explicitly test for an association between sexual dichromatism and diversificati ...[more]