ArticleEvolution letters2022
Frequent origins of traumatic insemination involve convergent shifts in sperm and genital morphology.
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- Evolution and co-evolution of the suck behaviour, a postcopulatory female resistance trait that manipulates received ejaculate.BMC biology · 2025Article
- Polyandry and sperm competition in two traumatically inseminating species of Strepsiptera (Insecta).Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Genome assemblies of the simultaneously hermaphroditic flatworms Macrostomum cliftonense and Macrostomum hystrix.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023Article
- Mating strategy predicts gene presence/absence patterns in a genus of simultaneously hermaphroditic flatworms.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- Evolution of sex allocation plasticity in a hermaphroditic flatworm genus.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2022Article
- Mating behavior and reproductive morphology predict macroevolution of sex allocation in hermaphroditic flatworms.BMC biology · 2022Article
- Refutation of traumatic insemination in theBiology letters · 2022Article
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- Three new species ofZooKeys · 2022Article
- Faster Rates of Molecular Sequence Evolution in Reproduction-Related Genes and in Species with Hypodermic Sperm Morphologies.Molecular biology and evolution · 2021Article
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Abstract
Traumatic insemination is a mating behavior during which the (sperm) donor uses a traumatic intromittent organ to inject an ejaculate through the epidermis of the (sperm) recipient, thereby frequently circumventing the female genitalia. Traumatic insemination occurs widely across animals, but the frequency of its evolution, the intermediate stages via which it originates, and the morphological changes that such shifts involve remain poorly understood. Based on observations in 145 species of the free-living flatworm genus
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