Symposium 24

Wednesday August 22

There might be minor changes in the program.
Location: Ekonomikum 1

  Sexual selection: testing the alternatives 25 years later
  Organizers: Tom Tregenza, University of Exeter, UK
David Hosken, University of Exeter, UK
     
  9.45-10.15 Russell Lande (invited)
Some history of sexual selection theory for polygamous species
  10.15-10.45 Rauno Alatalo (invited)
Sexual selection and the indirect genetic benefits
  10.45-11.05 Nina Wedell
Selfish genetic elements and sexual selection
  11.05-11.35 Coffee
  11.35-11.55 Trine Bilde
The genetic architecture of fitness and evolution of mating biases
  11.55-12.15 Wade Hazel
Is fitness equality necessary for the coexistence of conditionally expressed alternative reproductive phenotypes?
  12.15-12.35 Thomas Getty
Altruism and spite in sexually selected signalling
  12.35-14.00 Lunch
  14.00-14.30 Michael Wade (invited)
The paradox of sexual selection
  14.30-14.50 Jane Reid
Secondary sexual ornamentation and non-additive genetic benefits of female mate choice
  14.50-15.10 Rhonda Snook
Experimental evolution of sexual selection: responses and consequences
  15.10-15.30 Daphne Fairbairn
Sexual selection and allometry: Process does not predict pattern in a water strider
  15.30-16.00 Coffee
  16.00-16.20 Steve Chenoweth
Dissecting geographical divergence in multiple sexually-selected characters
  16.20-16.40 Roger Härdling
Sexual conflict, genetic correlation and stable polymorphism
  16.40-17.00 Göran Arnqvist
The effect of sexual selection on population fitness
  17.00-17.20 Judith Mank
Evolution of sex-biased genes in birds

 

 

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