ReviewProceedings. Biological sciences2018
Gamete-mediated mate choice: towards a more inclusive view of sexual selection.
Review in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
34 citing papers in PubMed.
- Female-mediated selective sperm activation may remodel major histocompatibility complex-based mate choice decisions in humans.Heredity · 2025Article
- Article
- Population density effects on gamete traits and fertilisation dynamics under varying sperm environments in mussels.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Solutions to the fertility equation in beef embryo recipients.Animal reproduction · 2024Review
- Pre-fertilization gamete thermal environment influences reproductive success, unmasking opposing sex-specific responses in Atlantic salmon (Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Article
- Can cryptic female choice prevent invasive hybridization in external fertilizing fish?Evolutionary applications · 2023Article
- Mismatch between calf paternity and observed copulations between male and female reindeer: Multiple mating in a polygynous ungulate?Current zoology · 2023Article
- Effect of MHC and inbreeding on disassortative reproduction: A data revisit, extension and inclusion of fertilization in sand lizards.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Frequency-dependent viscosity of salmon ovarian fluid has biophysical implications for sperm-egg interactions.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- Unravelling the genetics of non-random fertilization associated with gametic incompatibility.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Sexual selection on male but not female function in monoecious and dioecious populations of broadleaf arrowhead (Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Cryptic female choice within individual males - A neglected component of the postmating sexual selection?Journal of evolutionary biology · 2022Review
- Six Principles for Embracing Gender and Sexual Diversity in Postsecondary Biology Classrooms.Bioscience · 2022Article
- Ocean acidification alters sperm responses to egg-derived chemicals in a broadcast spawning mussel.Biology letters · 2022Article
- Sperm Physiological Response to Female Serum-Potential New Insights into the Reproductive Incompatibility Diagnostics.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Female-induced selective modification of sperm protein SUMOylation-potential mechanistic insights into the non-random fertilization in humans.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2022Article
- Teaching About Sex and Gender in Neuroscience: More Than Meets the "XY".Journal of undergraduate neuroscience education : JUNE : a publication of FUN, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Molecular mechanisms and evolution of fertilization proteins.Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2021Review
- Genetic incompatibility of the reproductive partners: an evolutionary perspective on infertility.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
'Sperm competition'-where ejaculates from two or more males compete for fertilization-and 'cryptic female choice'-where females bias this contest to suit their reproductive interests-are now part of the everyday lexicon of sexual selection. Yet the physiological processes that underlie these post-ejaculatory episodes of sexual selection remain largely enigmatic. In this review, we focus on a range of post-ejaculatory cellular- and molecular-level processes, known to be fundamental for fertilization across most (if not all) sexually reproducing species, and point to their putative role in facilitating sexual selection at the level of the cells and gametes, called 'gamete-mediated mate choice' (GMMC). In this way, we collate accumulated evidence for GMMC across different mating systems, and emphasize the evolutionary significance of such non-random interactions among gametes. Our overall aim in this review is to build a more inclusive view of sexual selection by showing that mate choice often acts in more nuanced ways than has traditionally been assumed. We also aim to bridge the conceptual divide between proximal mechanisms of reproduction, and adaptive explanations for patterns of non-random sperm-egg interactions that are emerging across an increasingly diverse array of taxa.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.