The ecology of sexual conflict: behaviorally plastic responses to temperature variation in the social environment can drastically modulate male harm to females.
R. Garcia-Roa, V. Chirinos, P. Carazo
This study shows that temperature variations modulate male harm to females in Drosophila melanogaster, reducing fitness impact by 45-73% and rescuing population productivity by 7-23%.
bioRxiv · Sep 28, 2018Evolutionary Biology