Price Trevor
Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Curr Biol. 2025 Feb 24;35(4):R154-R156. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.021.
Sexually selected traits, such as ornaments and colors, affect mating success and may also lead to reproductive isolation and species formation. A recent paper shows that genes underlying sexually selected differences between barn swallow subspecies do not pass across hybrid zones, implying that hybrids have low mating success.
诸如装饰物和颜色等性选择特征会影响交配成功率,还可能导致生殖隔离和物种形成。最近的一篇论文表明,家燕亚种间性选择差异背后的基因不会跨越杂交区域,这意味着杂交后代的交配成功率较低。