ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
Sexual selection after gamete release in broadcast spawning invertebrates.
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- How sperm competition shapes the evolution of testes and sperm: a meta-analysis.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Pooled it
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- Limited inbreeding avoidance at the gamete level despite inbreeding depression in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Sexual selection and pseudogenization in primate fertilization.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2025Article
- A transcriptomic hourglass in brown algae.Nature · 2024Article
- Parallel loss of sexual reproduction in field populations of a brown alga sheds light on the mechanisms underlying the emergence of asexuality.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Population density effects on gamete traits and fertilisation dynamics under varying sperm environments in mussels.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Female reproductive fluids 'rescue' sperm from phenotypic ageing in an external fertilizer.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Frequency-dependent viscosity of salmon ovarian fluid has biophysical implications for sperm-egg interactions.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- Bateman gradients from first principles.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Selection drives convergent gene expression changes during transitions to co-sexuality in haploid sexual systems.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
- Ocean acidification alters sperm responses to egg-derived chemicals in a broadcast spawning mussel.Biology letters · 2022Article
- Density-dependent patterns of multivariate selection on sperm motility and morphology in a broadcast spawning mussel.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Parthenogenesis and the Evolution of Anisogamy.Cells · 2021Article
- Indirect parental effects on offspring viability by egg-derived fluids in an external fertilizer.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- The role of female reproductive fluid in sperm competition.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
- Fifty years of sperm competition: the structure of a scientific revolution.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Broadcast spawning invertebrates offer highly tractable models for evaluating sperm competition, gamete-level mate choice and sexual conflict. By displaying the ancestral mating strategy of external fertilization, where sexual selection is constrained to act after gamete release, broadcast spawners also offer potential evolutionary insights into the cascade of events that led to sexual reproduction in more 'derived' groups (including humans). Moreover, the dynamic reproductive conditions faced by these animals mean that the strength and direction of sexual selection on both males and females can vary considerably. These attributes make broadcast spawning invertebrate systems uniquely suited to testing, extending, and sometimes challenging classic and contemporary ideas in sperm competition, many of which were first captured in Parker's seminal papers on the topic. Here, we provide a synthesis outlining progress in these fields, and highlight the burgeoning potential for broadcast spawners to provide both evolutionary and mechanistic understanding into gamete-level sexual selection more broadly across the animal kingdom. This article is part of the theme issue 'Fifty years of sperm competition'.
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