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SpermTree, a species-level database of sperm morphology spanning the animal tree of life.
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- Unusual Sperm Morphology in Two Sedentary Songbird Species.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- The physical consequences of sperm gigantism.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Towards a kingdom of reproductive life - the core sperm proteome.Reproduction (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- Phenogenomic resources immortalized in a panel of wild-derived strains of five species of house mice.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Transformation of sperm structure in Octopus vulgaris: From spermatogenesis to spermatophoric release.PloS one · 2025Article
- Relationships between Pre- and Postcopulatory Sexually Selected Traits in Green Frogs (Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Evolutionary Aspects of Sperm Physiology and Its Assessment.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025Review
- The conserved genetic program of male germ cells uncovers ancient regulators of human spermatogenesis.eLife · 2024Article
- Tetrapod sperm length evolution in relation to body mass is shaped by multiple trade-offs.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Coevolution between eggs and sperm of insects.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- scRNA-seq Reveals Novel Genetic Pathways and Sex Chromosome Regulation in Tribolium Spermatogenesis.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Karyotype depends on sperm head morphology in some amniote groups.Frontiers in genetics · 2024Article
- Fertilization mode differentially impacts the evolution of vertebrate sperm components.Nature communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
Sperm are the most morphologically variable cell type known, despite performing the same functional role of fertilizing eggs across all sexually reproducing species. Sperm morphology commonly varies among individuals, populations, closely related species, and across animal phyla. Sperm morphology has long been used as a tool for placing species in a phylogenetic context and a range of selective forces are hypothesized to influence sperm evolution and diversification. However, we currently lack robust examinations of macroevolutionary (i.e. across phyla) patterns of sperm evolution, due largely to the challenges of comparing sperm morphological data across the animal tree of life. Here we describe the SpermTree database, which currently represents 5,675 morphological descriptions of sperm morphology from 4,705 unique species from 27 animal phyla. This dataset includes measurements of sperm head, midpiece, flagellum and total length, the latter of which spans four orders of magnitude. All entries in the dataset are matched to currently accepted scientific names in taxonomic databases, facilitating the use of these data in analyses examining sperm evolution in animals.
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