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ArticleEcology and evolution2025

Reproductive Transitions and Sperm Utilisation in a Facultatively Parthenogenetic Stick Insect.

Jigmidmaa Boldbaatar, Pietro Pollo, Daniela Wilner, Nathan W Burke, Russell Bonduriansky

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Sexual conflict as a constraint on asexual reproduction: an empirical review.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Jigmidmaa BoldbaatarEvolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of New South Wales Sydney New South Wales Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3646-7932
Pietro PolloEvolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of New South Wales Sydney New South Wales Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6555-5400
Daniela WilnerEvolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of New South Wales Sydney New South Wales Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4508-4423
Nathan W BurkeInstitute of Cell and Systems Biology of Animals Universität Hamburg Hamburg Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9843-926X
Russell BondurianskyEvolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of New South Wales Sydney New South Wales Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5786-6951

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Facultative parthenogenesis enables females to switch from asexual (parthenogenetic) to sexual reproduction after mating, but the process of fertilisation is poorly understood in such animals. In particular, it is not known whether switching reproductive modes requires changes in the eggs themselves, delaying the transition from laying unfertilised to fertilised eggs. Likewise, very little is known about patterns of sperm precedence in facultatively parthenogenetic females that mate with multiple males. In this study, we manipulated reproductive mode in females of the facultatively parthenogenetic stick insect

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fertilisation successphasmidreproductive switchsperm precedence

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PMID40625314
PMCPMC12234150

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