ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
Selfish genetic elements and male fertility.
Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- A sperm racetrack to separate sperm by swim speed.Lab on a chip · 2026Article
- Single cell RNA-sequencing reveals no evidence for meiotic sex chromosome inactivation in the threespine stickleback fish.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- Single cell RNA-sequencing reveals no evidence for meiotic sex chromosome inactivation in the threespine stickleback fish.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- All Properties of Infertility Microbiome in a Review Article.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2025Review
- Mating receptivity mediated by endosymbiont interactions in a haplodiploid thrips species.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Environmental and Genetic Traffic in the Journey from Sperm to Offspring.Biomolecules · 2023Review
- The suppression of a selfish genetic element increases a male's mating success in a fly.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Microbial Dysbiosis and Male Infertility: Understanding the Impact and Exploring Therapeutic Interventions.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Review
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- A meiotic driver alters sperm form and function in house mice: a possible example of spite.Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology · 2022Article
- Within-ejaculate 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
Selfish genetic elements (SGEs) are diverse and near ubiquitous in Eukaryotes and can be potent drivers of evolution. Here, we discuss SGEs that specifically act on sperm to gain a transmission advantage to the next generation. The diverse SGEs that affect sperm often impose costs on carrier males, including damaging ejaculates, skewing offspring sex ratios and in particular reducing sperm-competitive success of SGE-carrying males. How males and females tolerate and mitigate against these costs is a dynamic and expanding area of research. The intense intra-genomic conflict that these selfish elements generate could also have implications for male fertility and spermatogenesis more widely. This article is part of the theme issue 'Fifty years of sperm competition'.
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