Of mice and women: advances in mammalian sperm competition with a focus on the female perspective

RC Firman - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… Further, this study eloquently demonstrated how sperm competition can enhance female
lifetime fitness [37]. Figure panels have been redrawn from those presented in the …

Status of sperm functionality assessment in wildlife species: From fish to primates

G van der Horst - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
… low level of sperm competition, the sperm concentration is 45 … in the sperm count, an increase
in abnormal sperm heads (… normal spermatozoa, and a high percentage of motile sperm

Sperm bauplan and function and underlying processes of sperm formation and selection

ME Teves, ERS Roldan - Physiological Reviews, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
… size and also in relation to function. The conclusions obtained from … work suggest that an
increase in levels of sperm competition results in an increase in relative number of spermatozoa

Conceptual developments in sperm competition: a very brief synopsis

GA Parker - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
sperm density around the ova as sperm competition increases, sperm size can relate to
sperm competitionsperm numbers always increase with sperm competition risk, but size may …

The role of female reproductive fluid in sperm competition

C Gasparini, A Pilastro… - … Transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
sperm of specific males, emphasizes the critical role that females play in moderating the
outcome of sperm competition … ), FRF increases the velocity and motility of sperm from dominant …

How sperm competition shapes the evolution of testes and sperm: a meta-analysis

S Lüpold, RA de Boer, JP Evans… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… levels of sperm competition across … of sperm competition are associated with relatively
larger testes. We also find clear evidence that sperm competition is associated with increases in …

[HTML][HTML] RAC1 controls progressive movement and competitiveness of mammalian spermatozoa

A Amaral, BG Herrmann - PLoS Genetics, 2021 - journals.plos.org
… progressive motility, in sperm competition, non-… in mammalian sperm motility at the
physiological level. Our data show that both enhanced and reduced RAC1 activity impairs sperm

Energy metabolism and hyperactivation of spermatozoa from three mouse species under capacitating conditions

E Sansegundo, M Tourmente, ERS Roldan - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sperm competition may select for faster swimming sperm, which may be the result of … The
results of our study show that capacitation promotes changes in sperm swimming patterns and …

The rapidly evolving X-linked MIR-506 family fine-tunes spermatogenesis to enhance sperm competition

Z Wang, Y Wang, T Zhou, S Chen, D Morris… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
… indeed displayed compromised sperm competition. Hence, the X-linked MIR-506 family
miRNAs appear to function to finetune spermatogenesis to enhance sperm competition and, …

[PDF][PDF] Energy metabolism and hyperactivation of spermatozoa from three mouse species under capacitating conditions. Cells, 2022; 11: 220

E Sansegundo, M Tourmente, ERS Roldan - 2022 - researchgate.net
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ERS Sperm competition enhances functional capacity of mammalian spermatozoa. Proc. Natl. …