The gonad as a mediator of life history tradeoffs: Antagonistic hormonal pleiotropy facilitates evolutionary divergence in reproductive strategies
Victoria S. Farrar, Salvi Patel, Alexandra X. Sumarli, Kieran Samuk, Alison M. Bell
The paper compares reproductive strategies in stickleback ecotypes, showing how hormonal tradeoffs shape life history divergence through gene expression and androgen production differences.
bioRxiv · Jul 10, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology