Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Intralocus sexual conflict can resolve the male-female health-survival paradox

  • C. Ruth Archer,
  • Mario Recker,
  • Eoin Duffy,
  • David J. Hosken

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07541-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Although men have lower survival across ages, women have poorer health than men as they age. Here, Archer et al. suggest that this pattern is explained by intralocus sexual conflict and provide supporting evidence from a mathematical model and experiments with Drosophila.