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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

With @ewanflintham.bsky.social @thomaslesaffre.bsky.social and @sarperotto.bsky.social we've been thinking about what theory tells us about sexual antagonism (SA = when selection favours different trait values in females and males). Our review is here: tinyurl.com/ct5mk8mv

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

New paper with the brilliant @ewanflintham.bsky.social How fast does recombination suppression evolve among sex chromosomes? We show that even weak sexual antagonism (so hard to detect) makes this fast, often via inversions fixing on X/Z depending on mating system: doi.org/10.1093/evle...

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Thomas Lesaffre 🌱 @thomaslesaffre.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

🌺 New preprint out with John Pannell and @charlesmullon.bsky.social ! 🌺 We show that selection broadly favours a form of plasticity for the selfing rate where individuals adjust their mating behaviour to their condition — their overall vitality owing to their genetic background and environment. ⤵️

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Ewan Flintham @ewanflintham.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Will be presenting this work today at #eseb2025 poster P02.184, come by if interested about whether we should expect recombination suppression on sex chromosomes should evolve through modifiers on the X or the Y

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Roman Stetsenko @romanstet.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

New paper out with Thomas Brazier, Denis Roze and Sylvain Glémin!

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Sexual antagonism, mating systems, and recombination suppression on sex chromosomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

1/7 Sexual antagonism arises when males and females face different selection pressures for a trait influenced by shared genes. This is thought to drive balancing selection and maintain genetic polymorphism. We challenge this view in our recent paper : 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae059

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The maintenance of genetic polymorphism underlying sexually antagonistic traits

Abstract. Selection often favors different trait values in males and females, leading to genetic conflicts between the sexes when traits have a shared gene

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