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Sexual selection at a multiallelic locus with complete or partial dominance

Authors: Samuel Karlin; Peter O'Donald;

Sexual selection at a multiallelic locus with complete or partial dominance

Abstract

In this paper we analyse three general models of sexual selection. In one of the models, an ordered series of multiple alleles determines a series of distinct phenotypes in a dominance hierarchy, each phenotype being dominant to all phenotypes below it in the hierarchy. In another model, some alleles determine an ordered hierarchy of dominant phenotypes; others are co-dominant, each genotype producing a separate phenotype except when in combination with one of the dominant alleles. In the third model, two groups of alleles form two separate dominance hierarchies with co-dominance between alleles from each group. In the model with ordered dominance, a unique, globally stable equilibrium is attained at which the frequencies of the phenotypes are exactly proportional to their rates of preferential mating. In the model with dominance and co-dominance, a unique, globally stable equilibrium is also attained. The gene frequencies at equilibrium are given by hybrid expressions combining the frequencies for complete dominance with those for complete co-dominance. An explicit solution is not found when the alleles form two separate dominance hierarchies; but a unique, globally stable equilibrium exists from which the equilibrium frequencies can be obtained by an iterative method. We also analyse some special models with a limited number of alleles and different dominance and co-dominance relationships. In a model with inclusion relationships between the alleles, an allele giving rise to one sexually selected dominant phenotype may also be included with another allele to give rise to a separate sexually selected phenotype. Thus the genotypes A1A1, A1A2 and A1A3, may represent one sexually selected phenotype; the genotypes A1A1, A11A2, A1A3, A2A2 and A2A3, may represent another sexually selected phenotype. This is a model of how sexual selection might operate in favour of increasing expression of a character: some females may respond to males with either the alleles A1 or A2; other females may only respond to males with the more extreme phenotype determined by the allele A1. At equilibrium, the allele A2 will have been eliminated.

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