ArticleEvolution letters2017
Experimental evolution reveals that sperm competition intensity selects for longer, more costly sperm.
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- Short experimental heatwaves have sublethal impacts on male reproduction in a model insect.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Relationships between Pre- and Postcopulatory Sexually Selected Traits in Green Frogs (Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Synthesis and Scope of the Role of Postmating Prezygotic Isolation in Speciation.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2024Review
- Heat stress reveals a fertility debt owing to postcopulatory sexual selection.Evolution letters · 2024Article
- Differences in sperm morphology between Alouatta palliata and Alouatta pigra are consistent with the intensity of sperm competition in each species.American journal of primatology · 2023Article
- Bait-ER: A Bayesian method to detect targets of selection in Evolve-and-Resequence experiments.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2023Article
- Diet quality impairs male and female reproductive performance and affects the opportunity for selection in an insect model.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Sperm bauplan and function and underlying processes of sperm formation and selection.Physiological reviews · 2022Review
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- Lineages evolved under stronger sexual selection show superior ability to invade conspecific competitor populations.Evolution letters · 2018Article
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- Precopulatory but not postcopulatory male reproductive traits diverge in response to mating system manipulation inEcology and evolution · 2017Article
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Abstract
It is the differences between sperm and eggs that fundamentally underpin the differences between the sexes within reproduction. For males, it is theorized that widespread sperm competition leads to selection for investment in sperm numbers, achieved by minimizing sperm size within limited resources for spermatogenesis in the testis. Here, we empirically examine how sperm competition shapes sperm size, after more than 77 generations of experimental selection of replicate lines under either high or low sperm competition intensities in the promiscuous flour beetle
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