Sperm morphological diversity

S Pitnick, DJ Hosken, TR Birkhead - Sperm biology, 2009 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the current knowledge of variation in sperm
morphology over several levels of biological organization: variation within males (both within …

Evolution and spermatogenesis

H White-Cooper, N Bausek - … Transactions of the Royal …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Sexual reproduction depends on the production of haploid gametes, and their fusion to form
diploid zygotes. Here, we discuss sperm production and function in a molecular and …

Genomic outposts serve the phylogenomic pioneers: designing novel nuclear markers for genomic DNA extractions of Lepidoptera

N Wahlberg, CW Wheat - Systematic biology, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Increasing the number of characters used in phylogenetic studies is the next crucial step
towards generating robust and stable phylogenetic hypotheses—ie, strongly supported and …

Atomic water channel controlling remarkable properties of a single brain microtubule: correlating single protein to its supramolecular assembly

S Sahu, S Ghosh, B Ghosh, K Aswani, K Hirata… - Biosensors and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Microtubule nanotubes are found in every living eukaryotic cells; these are formed by
reversible polymerization of the tubulin protein, and their hollow fibers are filled with …

Ejaculate–female and sperm–female interactions

S Pitnick, MF Wolfner, SS Suarez - Sperm biology, 2009 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary The mechanisms of sexual reproduction are expected to be complex
and evolutionarily dynamic in internally fertilizing species, where numerous biochemical …

[HTML][HTML] Tubulin evolution in insects: gene duplication and subfunctionalization provide specialized isoforms in a functionally constrained gene family

MG Nielsen, SR Gadagkar, L Gutzwiller - BMC evolutionary biology, 2010 - Springer
Background The completion of 19 insect genome sequencing projects spanning six insect
orders provides the opportunity to investigate the evolution of important gene families, here …

[HTML][HTML] Sterility and Gene Expression in Hybrid Males of Xenopus laevis and X. muelleri

JH Malone, TH Chrzanowski, P Michalak - PloS one, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Background Reproductive isolation is a defining characteristic of populations that represent
unique biological species, yet we know very little about the gene expression basis for …

Molecular Characterization and Evolution of a Gene Family Encoding Both Female- and Male-Specific Reproductive Proteins in Drosophila

LK Sirot, GD Findlay, JL Sitnik… - Molecular biology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Gene duplication is an important mechanism for the evolution of new reproductive proteins.
However, in most cases, each resulting paralog continues to function within the same sex …

Gene duplication, tissue-specific gene expression and sexual conflict in stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae)

RH Baker, A Narechania… - … Transactions of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Gene duplication provides an essential source of novel genetic material to facilitate rapid
morphological evolution. Traits involved in reproduction and sexual dimorphism represent …

Unusual axonemes of hexapod spermatozoa

R Dallai, P Lupetti, C Mencarelli - International Review of Cytology, 2006 - Elsevier
Hexapod spermatozoa exhibit a great variation in their axoneme structure. The 9+ 2 pattern
organization is present in a few basal taxa and in some derived groups. In most hexapods, a …