Males are simple creatures
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That has no bearing on the females selection of a mate. The female of the species is trying to determine which males carry the best genes to increase her offspring's chance of survival. As I said, choosing a male who survives and thrives despite some absurd impediment such as a giant tail is a marker for a male that is quite hardy, or fit.
Ah, just ran across a few over time - some bark beetles, I think?geoff said:
(Some of which farm fungi, like ants and termites - the correlation between agricultural housekeeping and the simplified, dethroned, foreshortened, trivialized male can hardly be a coincidence)
But I was mainly just thinking of the Hymenoptera, which seems like "lots of insects" when one is typing fast.
As far as males being complex, there's always the platypus - XYXYXYXYXY, IIRC.
Interesting - yeah , I guess the Hymenoptera really are technically ZW - I'd always heard it described as Aa vs A0 and a0. But they produce AA also, which get eaten (http://www.genome.org/cgi/reprint/gr.4695306v1). I wonder if it would be possible to differentiate male divergence from the quantitative genetics of the simplified haploid construction?
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Darn...I can't really say more. Might be kind of a giveaway, and in light of some of the types on the forums, it's safer that I keep my anonymity. As it is, I'm leaving shorty anyway but it kind of sucks that I can't discuss anything job-related.