Latest Antagonistic Coevolution Stories

An evolutionary engine of genital evolution When a female mates with several males, these will compete over the fertilization her eggs. This is an important evolutionary force that has led to the evolution of a diversity of male sexual organ morphologies. This is revealed in a study of seed beetles published today in the leading scientific journal Current Biology. In higher plants, the influential classification system developed by Carl von Linnaeus relied on the fact that the...