Asymmetry in cross-sex cross-trait genetic covariances and the evolvability of sexual dimorphism

The evolution of sexual dimorphism is predicted to resolve conflict that can arise from divergent evolutionary interests between sexes, enabling each sex to reach its fitness optimum. However, most of the genome is shared between sexes, which can lead to a genetic constraint for dimorphism evolution. Most studies of intersexual genetic constraints have focused on the effect of genetic correlations, rmf, for single traits. However, multivariate studies of the B-matrix of intersexual genetic covariances suggest that sexual dimorphism may be more evolvable than inferred from rmf because of the potential for indirect responses to selection from correlated traits. To comprehensively address this question, we collected and re-analyzed published estimates of B using a recently developed approach to quantify the evolvability of sexual monomorphism and dimorphism. We find that across the traits and species we study, the evolvability of dimorphism is lower than that of monomorphism, but also..., , # Data from: Asymmetry in cross-sex cross-trait genetic covariances and the evolvability of sexual dimorphism

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.sxksn03fh](10.5061/dryad.sxksn03fh)

## Description of the data and file structure

Repository for the paper: “Asymmetry in cross-sex cross-trait genetic covariances and the evolvability of sexual dimorphism”

## Authors & institutions:

Mathieu Videlier; [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])

Jacqueline Sztepanacz; [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])

Author affiliations: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks street, Toronto, ON, M5S3B2, Canada

Responsible for collecting data: Mathieu Videlier

Responsible for writing code: Mathieu Videlier

## Files and variables

### File: data.zip

#### Description: 

contains the following files:

\- raw_data.csv: Dataset with information from literature survey

\- combined_data.csv: Final dataset produced by run...,