Many cool stories in Runa Ekrem's PhD. Most will revolve around a marine #insect #Clunio marinus - the first one reaching publication status does not. Still, the theme is a related one: how do males and females (moths? butterflies?) time their lives when neither lives very long, and the environment is seasonal? Naturally selected #phenology conflicts with sexual #selection, and if your intuition tells you that #SexualConflict and unmatedness play a role too, you're right! https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpac054/6896158
Sexual conflict over phenological traits: Selection for protandry can lock populations into temporally mismatched reproduction

Abstract. In seasonal environments, competition among males can drive males to emerge before females. Females, simultaneously, should avoid emerging at times af

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