The role of female reproductive fluid in sperm competition

C Gasparini, A Pilastro… - … Transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The role of non-gametic components of the ejaculate (seminal fluid) in fertility and sperm
competitiveness is now well established. Surprisingly, however, we know far less about …

Red macroalgae in the genomic era

M Borg, SA Krueger‐Hadfield, C Destombe… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Rhodophyta (or red algae) are a diverse and species‐rich group that forms one of three
major lineages in the Archaeplastida, a eukaryotic supergroup whose plastids arose from a …

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
Females of many species mate with multiple males, thereby inciting competition among
ejaculates from rival males for fertilization. In response to increasing sperm competition …

Fifty years of sperm competition: The structure of a scientific revolution

LW Simmons, N Wedell - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Kuhn [1] recognized that scientific advances are made through periods of 'normal
science'and 'revolutionary science'. During periods of normal science researchers explore …

Female reproductive fluids 'rescue'sperm from phenotypic ageing in an external fertilizer

JH Hadlow, JP Evans… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Female reproductive fluids (FRFs) serve key reproductive functions in sexually reproducing
animals, including modifying the way sperm swim and detect eggs, and influencing sperm …

Selection drives convergent gene expression changes during transitions to co-sexuality in haploid sexual systems

GG Cossard, O Godfroy, Z Nehr, C Cruaud… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Co-sexuality has evolved repeatedly from unisexual (dioicous) ancestors across a wide
range of taxa. However, the molecular changes underpinning this important transition …

Parallel loss of sexual reproduction in field populations of a brown alga sheds light on the mechanisms underlying the emergence of asexuality

M Hoshino, G Cossard, FB Haas, EI Kane… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Sexual reproduction is widespread, but asexual lineages have repeatedly arisen from
sexual ancestors across a wide range of eukaryotic taxa. The molecular changes …

Bateman gradients from first principles

J Lehtonen - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract In 1948, Angus Bateman presented experiments and concepts that remain
influential and debated in sexual selection. The Bateman gradient relates reproductive …

Rapid evolution of pollen and pistil traits as a response to sexual selection in the post-pollination phase of mating

J Tonnabel, P Cosette, A Lehner, JC Mollet… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Sexual selection is the basis of some of the most striking phenotypic variation in nature. 1, 2
In animals, sexual selection in males can act on traits that improve access to mates prior to …

Indiscriminate mating and the coevolution of sex discrimination and sexual signals

BA Lerch, MR Servedio - The American Naturalist, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
The presence of same-sex sexual behavior across the animal kingdom is often viewed as
unexpected. One explanation for its prevalence in some taxa is indiscriminate mating—a …