Jacek Radwan
Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Title
Sexual selection and conflict in the bulb mite
Abstract
Whether benefits accrued by females due to mate choice outweigh costs associated with sexual selection
remain largely unresolved. The ‘good genes’ perspective that mate choice is benefits females genetically
has been challenged by the arguments that sexual selection is driven by mostly by intersexual conflict.
I will present an overview of experimental tests of predictions of good genes and sexual conflict
mechanisms in the bulb mite Rhizoglyphus robini (Acari: Acaridae).
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Jacek Radwan studied biology at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where he received his PhD in 1992.
After postdoctoral fellowships at University of Sheffield and Max Planck Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie
Seewiesen, he came back to Kraków, where he completed his habilitation in 1997 and became a leader
of Ethology Research Group at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University.
In 2005, he was awarded professorship there.
His current research interests focus on developing strong tests of good genes models of sexual selection
and of relative significance of sexual conflict in shaping male and female reproductive traits and
behaviours. He has mostly used acarid mites as a model organism, but recently he has also initiated the
project investigating the role of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) in mate choice in the bank vole.
Selected recent publications
- Radwan, J., Michalczyk, Ł. and Prokop, Z. 2005. Age-dependence of male mating ability and sperm competition success in the bulb mite. Anim. Behav. 69: 1101-1105.
- Radwan, J. 2004. Effectiveness of sexual selection in removing mutations induced with ionizing radiation. Ecol. Lett. 7: 1149-1154.
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- Tomkins, J.L., Radwan, J., Kotiaho, J.S. and Tregenza, T. 2004. Genic capture and resolving the lek paradox. Trends Ecol. Evol. 19: 323-328.
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- Unrug, J., Tomkins, J., Radwan, J. 2004. Alternative phenotypes and sexual selection: can dichotomous handicaps honestly signal quality? Proc. . Soc. Lond. B. 271: 1401-1406.
- Radwan, J., Kruczek, M., Labocha, M., Grabiec K. and Koteja, P. 2004. Contest winning and metabolic competence in male bank voles Clethrionomys glareolus. Behaviour 141: 343-354
- Kozielska, M., Krzemińska, A. and Radwan J. 2004. Good genes and maternal effects of polyandry on offspring fitness in the bulb mite. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 271: 165-170.
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- Radwan. J. 2003. Male age, germline mutations and the benefits of polyandry. Ecol. Lett. 6: 581-586.
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