ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
Revealing mechanisms of mating plug function under sexual selection.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 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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- Mate-guarding success depends on male investment in a butterfly.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Evolutionary Quantitative Proteomics of Reproductive Protein Divergence in Drosophila.Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP · 2023Article
- Good things come to those who mate: analysis of the mating behaviour in the menstruating rodent, Acomys cahirinus.BMC zoology · 2022Article
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- Hearing, touching, and multisensory integration during mate choice.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Review
- The baculum affects paternity success of first but not second males in house mouse sperm competition.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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Abstract
Mating plugs are produced by many sexually reproducing animals and are hypothesized to promote male fertilization success under promiscuous mating. However, tests of this hypothesis have been constrained by an inability to discriminate ejaculates of different males in direct competition. Here, we use stable isotope labeling in vivo and proteomics to achieve this in a promiscuous rodent,
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