ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
Sperm and alternative reproductive tactics: a review of existing theory and empirical data.
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- Male alternative reproductive tactics and sperm competition: a meta-analysis.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Pooled it
- Male reproductive tactics in house mice: Consistent individual differences, intrinsic factors and density effects.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Strategic use of male alternative reproductive tactics in cooperatively breeding banded mongoose groups.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Indirect evidence of an early mating advantage in wild cooperatively breeding male banded mongooses.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Post-copulatory competition in a social monogamy system: Sperm morphology correlates with components of reproductive success.PloS one · 2025Article
- Testing for Differences in Metabolism Among Females and Dimorphic Males of Four Dung Beetle Species (Coloeoptera: Scarabaeinae).Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Patterns of sperm swimming behaviour depend on male mating tactic and spawning environment in chinook salmon.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Supergenes are not necessary to explain the maintenance of complex alternative phenotypes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Genetically identical mice express alternative reproductive tactics depending on social conditions in the field.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Ultimate drivers of forced extra-pair copulations in birds lacking a penis: jackdaws as a case-study.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Reproductive biology of harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones): a review of a rapidly evolving research field.Current zoology · 2024Review
- Pre-fertilization gamete thermal environment influences reproductive success, unmasking opposing sex-specific responses in Atlantic salmon (Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Modelling the impacts of male alternative reproductive tactics on population dynamics.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Sperm competition experiments reveal low prezygotic postmating isolation between parasitic and nonparasitic lamprey ecotypes.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Evaluating the evolutionary mechanisms maintaining alternative mating strategies in a simulated bull trout (Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Molecular, behavioural and morphological comparisons of sperm adaptations in a fish with alternative reproductive tactics.Evolutionary applications · 2023Article
- Fertilization modes and the evolution of sperm characteristics in marine fishes: Paired comparisons of externally and internally fertilizing species.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
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- Male sperm storage impairs sperm quality in the zebrafish.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Context-dependent behavioural plasticity compromises disruptive selection of sperm traits in squid.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Males that exhibit alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) often differ in the risk of sperm competition and the energetic trade-offs they experience. The resulting patterns of selection could lead to between-tactic differences in ejaculate traits. Despite extensive research on male ARTs, there is no comprehensive review of whether and what differences in sperm traits exist between male ARTs. We review existing theory on ejaculate evolution relevant to ARTs and then conduct a comprehensive vote-counting review of the empirical data comparing sperm traits between males adopting ARTs. Despite the general expectation that sneaker males should produce sperm that are more competitive (e.g. higher quality or performance), we find that existing theory does not predict explicitly how males adopting ARTs should differ in sperm traits. The majority of studies find no significant difference in sperm performance traits between dominant and sneaker males. However, when there is a difference, sneaker males tend to have higher sperm performance trait values than dominant males. We propose ways that future theoretical and empirical research can improve our understanding of the evolution of ejaculate traits in ARTs. We then highlight how studying ejaculate traits in species with ARTs will improve our broader knowledge of ejaculate evolution. This article is part of the theme issue 'Fifty years of sperm competition'.
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