ArticleFrontiers in zoology2014
Alternative delivery of male accessory gland products.
Article in Frontiers in zoology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Seminal fluid and accessory male investment in sperm competition.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
- High level of sperm competition may increase transfer of accessory gland products carried by the love dart of land snails.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
- Male reproductive suppression: not a social affair.Current zoology · 2017Article
- Hidden female physiological resistance to male accessory gland substances in a simultaneous hermaphrodite.The Journal of experimental biology · 2017Article
- Sex determination and gender expression: Reproductive investment in snails.Molecular reproduction and development · 2017Review
- On the effect specificity of accessory gland products transferred by the love-dart of land snails.BMC evolutionary biology · 2016Article
- The Spermatophore in Glossina morsitans morsitans: Insights into Male Contributions to Reproduction.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Sexual conflict in hermaphrodites.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2014Review
- Emerging issues in the evolution of animal nuptial gifts.Biology letters · 2014Article
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Abstract
To increase fertilization success, males transfer accessory gland products (Acps). Several species have evolved unconventional Acps transfer modes, meaning that Acps are transferred separately from the sperm. By surveying the sperm-free Acps transfer cases, we show that these animals have evolved a common strategy to deliver Acps: they all inject Acps directly through the partner's body wall into the hemolymph. Our review of this mode of Acps transfer reveals another striking similarity: they all transfer sperm in packages or via the skin, which may leave little room for Acps transfer via the conventional route in seminal fluid. We synthesise the knowledge about the function, and the effects in the recipients, of the Acps found in the widely diverse taxa (including earthworms, sea slugs, terrestrial snails, scorpions and salamanders) that inject these substances. Despite the clearly independent evolution of the injection devices, these animals have evolved a common alternative strategy to get their partners to accept and/or use their sperm. Most importantly, the evolution of the injection devices for the delivery of Acps highlights how the latter are pivotal for male reproductive success and, hence, strongly influence sexual selection.
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