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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Divergent allocation of sperm and the seminal proteome along a competition gradient in

Ben R Hopkins, Irem Sepil, Marie-Laëtitia Thézénas, James F Craig, Thomas Miller, Philip D Charles, Roman Fischer, Benedikt M Kessler, Amanda Bretman, Tommaso Pizzari and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

59 citing papers in PubMed.

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  13. 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 · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Ben R HopkinsEdward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, OX1 3PS Oxford, United Kingdom; brhopkins92@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-9760-6185
Irem SepilEdward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, OX1 3PS Oxford, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-3228-5480
Marie-Laëtitia ThézénasTDI Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Target Discovery Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, OX3 7BN Oxford, United Kingdom.
James F CraigEdward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, OX1 3PS Oxford, United Kingdom.
Thomas MillerEdward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, OX1 3PS Oxford, United Kingdom.
Philip D CharlesTDI Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Target Discovery Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, OX3 7BN Oxford, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-5278-5354
Roman FischerTDI Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Target Discovery Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, OX3 7BN Oxford, United Kingdom.
Benedikt M KesslerTDI Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Target Discovery Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, OX3 7BN Oxford, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-8160-2446
Amanda BretmanSchool of Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT Leeds, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-4421-3337
Tommaso PizzariEdward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, OX1 3PS Oxford, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-5409-6840
Stuart WigbyEdward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, OX1 3PS Oxford, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-2260-2948

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/K014544/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 097813/11/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sperm competition favors large, costly ejaculates, and theory predicts the evolution of allocation strategies that enable males to plastically tailor ejaculate expenditure to sperm competition threat. While greater sperm transfer in response to a perceived increase in the risk of sperm competition is well-supported, we have a poor understanding of whether males (

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ProteomeProteomicsAnimalsDrosophila melanogasterMaleMating Preference, AnimalReproductionSeminal Plasma ProteinsSexual Behavior, AnimalSpermatozoaProteomeSeminal Plasma Proteinsphenotypic plasticityreproductionseminal fluidsexual selectionsperm competition

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PMID31431535
PMCPMC6731677

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