ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2016
Cryptic female choice enhances fertilization success and embryo survival in chinook salmon.
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- Can cryptic female choice prevent invasive hybridization in external fertilizing fish?Evolutionary applications · 2023Article
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- Cryptic female choice within individual males - A neglected component of the postmating sexual selection?Journal of evolutionary biology · 2022Review
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- Sperm bauplan and function and underlying processes of sperm formation and selection.Physiological reviews · 2022Review
- Genetic incompatibility of the reproductive partners: an evolutionary perspective on infertility.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
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- The role of female reproductive fluid in sperm competition.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
- Ovarian fluid proteome variation associates with sperm swimming speed in an externally fertilizing fish.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2020Article
- Gamete-level immunogenetic incompatibility in humans-towards deeper understanding of fertilization and infertility?Heredity · 2020Article
- How female × male and male × male interactions influence competitive fertilization inEvolution letters · 2020Article
- Post-copulatory genetic matchmaking: HLA-dependent effects of cervical mucus on human sperm function.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Fitness benefits of male dominance behaviours depend on the degree of individual inbreeding in a polyandrous lizard.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
In this study, we investigated two potentially important intersexual postcopulatory gametic interactions in a population of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha): (i) the effect of female ovarian fluid (OF) on the behaviour of spermatozoa during fertilization and (ii) the effects of multilocus heterozygosity (MLH) (as an index of male quality) and female-male genetic relatedness on sperm behaviour and male fertilization success when there is sperm competition in the presence of that OF. To do this, we conducted a series of in vitro competitive fertilization experiments and found that, when ejaculates from two males are competing for access to a single female's unfertilized eggs, fertilization success was significantly biased towards the male whose sperm swam fastest in the female's OF. Embryo survival--a measure of fitness--was also positively correlated with both sperm swimming speed in OF and male MLH, providing novel evidence that cryptic female choice is adaptive for the female, enhancing the early survival of her offspring and potentially influencing her fitness.
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