Fighting Through the Heat: How Sexual Selection Influences Demography Under Recurrent Heatwaves
Neelam Porwal, Jonathan M. Parrett, Agnieszka Szubert‐Kruszyńska, Neha Pandey, Robert J. Knell, Tom C. Cameron, Jacek Radwan
This study shows that sexual selection does not modulate population sensitivity to heatwaves but may increase resilience to prolonged bottlenecks in the soil mite Sancassania berlesei.
bioRxiv · Mar 31, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology