Ecology and sexual conflict drive the macroevolutionary dynamics of female-limited color polymorphisms in damselflies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, number 36, September 2025.
Importance When women benefit from a reduction in mating, they can evolve from distinct genetic morphe, which decrease the overall success of male mating. In the damage of the ponds, polymorphisms of female limited color are kept within the populations by the frequency …