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Ewan Flintham
@ewanflintham.bsky.social
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Evolutionary biologist interested sexual selection, sexual conflict and mating systems.
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Ewan Flintham @ewanflintham.bsky.social · Aug 19
Will be presenting this work today at #eseb2025 poster P02.184, come by if interested about whether we should expect recombination suppression on sex chromosomes should evolve through modifiers on the X or the Y
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · May 19
Sexual antagonism, mating systems, and recombination suppression on sex chromosomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.654257v1
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Roman Stetsenko @romanstet.bsky.social · May 12
New paper out with Thomas Brazier, Denis Roze and Sylvain Glémin!
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · May 12
Two research teams from @cnrs.fr @sbroscoff.bsky.social carried a comparative analysis in flowering plants that supports the prediction that inbreeding, such as self-fertilization, selects for higher recombination rates:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Brazier et al.
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Mating system and the evolution of recombination rates in seed plants
Abstract. Meiotic recombination is a central mechanism underlying sexual reproduction among eukaryotes. In many species, the recombination rate is strongly
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · May 19
Sexual antagonism, mating systems, and recombination suppression on sex chromosomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.654257v1
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Reposted by Ewan Flintham
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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · Jan 22
1/7 Very happy to share our latest paper on the joint evolution of separate sexes and sexual dimorphism in @jevbio.bsky.social, led by @thomaslesaffre.bsky.social and in collaboration with John Pannell at @dee-unil.bsky.social

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voae136
The joint evolution of separate sexes and sexual dimorphism
Abstract. Dioecious plants are frequently sexually dimorphic. Such dimorphism, which reflects responses to selection acting in opposite directions for male
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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · Jan 24
1/7 Sexual antagonism arises when males and females face different selection pressures for a trait influenced by shared genes. This is thought to drive balancing selection and maintain genetic polymorphism. We challenge this view in our recent paper :

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae059
The maintenance of genetic polymorphism underlying sexually antagonistic traits
Abstract. Selection often favors different trait values in males and females, leading to genetic conflicts between the sexes when traits have a shared gene
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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · Jan 23
The maintenance of genetic polymorphism underlying sexually antagonistic traits
doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Ewan Flintham et al.
The maintenance of genetic polymorphism underlying sexually antagonistic traits
Abstract. Selection often favors different trait values in males and females, leading to genetic conflicts between the sexes when traits have a shared gene
doi.org
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