Sexual Selection Does Not Increase the Rate of Compensatory Adaptation to a Mutation Influencing a Secondary Sexual Trait in <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>.

In addition, the ectopic sex combs induced by the scd 1 mutation became smaller on average in both the HSS and LSS treatments ( Figure 5C ; Table 3 ), losing on average ∼0.5 teeth across the 24 generations of experimental evolution, though the effect of generation was only marginally significant in the HSS treatment.

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