ArticleTrends in ecology & evolution2013
The seminal symphony: how to compose an ejaculate.
Article in Trends in ecology & evolution, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 114 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Male seminal fluid allocation according to socio-sexual context in the South American fruit fly.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2025Article
- Early social isolation disrupts adult personality expression in group-living mites.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
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- Semen adaptation to microbes in an insect.Evolution letters · 2024Article
- Mating competition among females: testing the distinction between natural and sexual selection in an insect.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Effects of an entomopathogenic fungus on the reproductive potential ofEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- Peer-induced quiescence of maleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- The effect of seminal fluid gene expression on paternity.Evolution letters · 2023Article
- Immune Regulation of Seminal Plasma on the Endometrial Microenvironment: Physiological and Pathological Conditions.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Genotype-by-environment interactions influence the composition of theProceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Ejaculates are fundamental to fitness in sexually reproducing animals: males gain all their direct fitness via the ejaculate and females require ejaculates to reproduce. Both sperm and non-sperm components of the ejaculate (including parasperm, seminal proteins, water, and macromolecules) play vital roles in postcopulatory sexual selection and conflict, processes that can potentially drive rapid evolutionary change and reproductive isolation. Here, we assess the increasing evidence that considering ejaculate composition as a whole (and potential trade-offs among ejaculate components) has important consequences for predictions about male reproductive investment and female responses to ejaculates. We review current theory and empirical work, and detail how social and environmental effects on ejaculate composition have potentially far-reaching fitness consequences for both sexes.
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