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Tag for questions related to the differences in appearance between males and females of the same species, such as in colour, shape, size, and structure, that are caused by the inheritance of one or the other sexual pattern in the genetic material.
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Sexually homologous traits
When papers refer to traits as being sexually homologous do they refer to traits which are:
a) present in both sexes but can be dimorphic (e.g. body size is sexually homologous because both sexes hav …
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Main mechanism of the evolution of sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is very common and (normally) requires the evolution of sex-specific genetic variation/regulation so the genetic correlation between the sexes can be <1. Is there consensus as to how …
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Sex biased gene expression in the X chromosome
It has been shown that the X chromosome is frequently enriched for female biased genes, and has a deficit of male biased genes. For example in this paper, and this one.
However, I'm struggling to fin …
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Is there a standard formula/calculation for sexual dimorphism?
Is there a standard, or most accepted, way to present a value for sexual dimorphism? For example, one could use
$$\frac{\text{Female value}}{\text{Male value}} -1$$
This would give negative values …
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