Local adaptation of male sexual fitness in <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Mate competition gives rise to sexual selection, and healthier, more vigorous males are likely to be superior competitors. Because most genes are likely to impact an individual's vigor, sexual selection should act across much of the genome to favor the same alleles as natural selection, thereby promoting adaptation. On the other side of the coin, adaptation to an environment should enhance male sexual fitness in that environment because it is likely to increase the overall vigor of individuals within a population. Surprisingly, there are few tests of this latter prediction and results are mixed. Taking advantage of a long-term evolution experiment involving replicate populations of Drosophila melanogaster, we performed a reciprocal transplant in which the sexual fitness of males was compared when raised in an environment to which they were well adapted and in one to which they were not. Male sexual fitness was a comprehensive measure that included pre and postcopulatory reproductive success in a competitive assay performed under conditions that closely mirrored those to which the populations had been evolving. The results add support to the idea that local adaptation to the abiotic environment enhances male sexual fitness.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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