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A competitive environment influences sperm production, but not testes tissue composition, in house mice

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A costly chemical trait: phenotypic condition dependence of cuticular hydrocarbons in a dung beetle

scientific article published on 25 September 2018

A model of constant random sperm displacement during mating: evidence from Scatophaga ⬇️

scientific article published on November 22, 1991

Additive genetic variance in polyandry enables its evolution, but polyandry is unlikely to evolve through sexy or good sperm processes

scientific article published on 23 January 2016

Age‐dependent trade‐offs between immunity and male, but not female, reproduction ⬇️

scientific article published on July 31, 2012

Allocation of maternal- and ejaculate-derived proteins to reproduction in female crickets, Teleogryllus oceanicus ⬇️

scientific article published on November 2, 2010

Are body fluctuating asymmetry and the ratio of 2nd to 4th digit length reliable predictors of semen quality?

scientific article published in April 2003

Assortative mating for relatedness in a large naturally occurring population of Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on 9 February 2012

Bacterial immunity traded for sperm viability in male crickets.

scientific article published in September 2005

Benefits of polyandry: Molecular evidence from field-caught dung beetles.

scientific article

Can paternal effects via seminal fluid contribute to the evolution of polyandry?

scientific article published on 18 November 2020

Comparing evolvabilities: common errors surrounding the calculation and use of coefficients of additive genetic variation

scientific article published on 6 February 2012

Complex patterns of multivariate selection on the ejaculate of a broadcast spawning marine invertebrate

scientific article published on 10 April 2012

Consequences of sperm displacement for female dung flies, Scatophaga stercoraria

scientific article published in 1998

Correlated evolution of sexual dimorphism and male dimorphism in a clade of neotropical harvestmen.

scientific article published on 9 April 2014

Costs of breeding and their effects on the direction of sexual selection

scientific article published in February 2006

Crickets detect the genetic similarity of mating partners via cuticular hydrocarbons

scientific article (publication date: 8 June 2011)

Cuticular hydrocarbons are heritable in the cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus

scientific article published on 18 March 2008

Cuticular hydrocarbons influence female attractiveness to males in the Australian field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus

scientific article published in March 2010

Dietary antioxidants, but not courtship effort, affect oxidative balance in the testes and muscles of crickets

scientific article published on 22 October 2018

Divergence in genital morphology may contribute to mechanical reproductive isolation in a millipede.

scientific article published on 9 January 2013

Does attractiveness in men provide clues to semen quality?

scientific article published on 3 January 2008

Does genetic diversity predict health in humans?

scientific article

Effects of Macrocheles mites on longevity of males of the dimorphic dung beetle Onthophagus binodis

scientific article published in 2001

Effects of vitamin E and beta‐carotene on sperm competitiveness ⬇️

scientific article published on July 12, 2011

Egg jelly influences sperm motility in the externally fertilizing frog, Crinia georgiana

scientific article published in January 2009

Ejaculate Economics: Testing the Effects of Male Sexual History on the Trade-Off between Sperm and Immune Function in Australian Crickets ⬇️

scientific article published on January 11, 2012

Ejaculate expenditure by malebush crickets decreases with sperm competition intensity.

scientific article published in August 1997

Estimating relatedness and inbreeding using molecular markers and pedigrees: the effect of demographic history

scientific article published on 5 November 2013

Evidence for stabilizing selection and slow divergent evolution of male genitalia in a millipede (Antichiropus variabilis).

scientific article published on 6 December 2011

Evolution of ejaculates: patterns of phenotypic and genotypic variation and condition dependence in sperm competition traits

scientific article published in August 2002

Evolutionary Trade-Off between Secondary Sexual Traits and Ejaculates

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Evolutionary change in testes tissue composition among experimental populations of house mice

scientific article

Evolutionary divergence via sexual selection acting on females in a species with sex role reversal

scientific article published in 2022

Evolutionary reduction in testes size and competitive fertilization success in response to the experimental removal of sexual selection in dung beetles.

scientific article

Evolutionary response to sexual selection in male genital morphology

scientific article published on 6 August 2009

Evolutionary trade-off between weapons and testes.

scholarly article

Experimental coevolution of male and female genital morphology

scientific article published on 5 July 2011

Experimental evidence for the evolution of the Mammalian baculum by sexual selection

scientific article published on 29 August 2013

Experimental evidence for the role of sexual selection in the evolution of cuticular hydrocarbons in the dung beetle, Onthophagus taurus

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

Experimental evolution of sperm competitiveness in a mammal.

scientific article

Experimental evolution of sperm quality via postcopulatory sexual selection in house mice

scientific article

Experimental evolution reveals differences between phenotypic and evolutionary responses to population density.

scientific article

Experimental evolution reveals trade-offs between mating and immunity

scientific article published on 29 May 2013

Experimental manipulation reveals a trade-off between weapons and testes.

scientific article

Facial attractiveness ratings from video-clips and static images tell the same story

scientific article

Female choice and manipulations of forceps size and symmetry in the earwig Forficula auricularia L.

scientific article published in August 1998

Female crickets assess relatedness during mate guarding and bias storage of sperm towards unrelated males

scientific article

Female crickets trade offspring viability for fecundity

scientific article published in July 2007

Female effects, but no intrinsic male effects on paternity outcome in crickets.

scientific article published on 19 May 2014

Female genitalia can evolve more rapidly and divergently than male genitalia

scientific article published on 21 March 2019

Female monopolization mediates the relationship between pre- and postcopulatory sexual traits.

scientific article published in January 2014

Females suffer a reduction in the viability of stored sperm following an immune challenge

scientific article published on 20 November 2013

Fitness consequences of parental compatibility in the frog Crinia georgiana

scientific article published on 14 January 2008

Flight behaviour of honey bee (Apis mellifera) workers is altered by initial infections of the fungal parasite Nosema apis

scientific article

Fluctuating paradigm.

scientific article

Gametic interactions promote inbreeding avoidance in house mice

scientific article published on 7 July 2015

Genetic breeding system and investment patterns within nests of Dawson's burrowing bee (Amegilla dawsoni) (Hymenoptera: Anthophorini).

scientific article

Genetic diversity revealed in human faces

scientific article published on 12 September 2008

Genetic variation but weak genetic covariation between pre- and post-copulatory episodes of sexual selection in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on 9 May 2016

Genetic variation underlying the expression of a polyphenism

scientific article published on 22 February 2012

Genital morphology and fertilization success in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus: an example of sexually selected male genitalia.

scientific article published in March 2003

Geographic variation in female preference functions and male songs of the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus.

scientific article published in July 2001

Good Genes and Sexual Selection in Dung Beetles (Onthophagus taurus): Genetic Variance in Egg-to-Adult and Adult Viability ⬇️

scientific article published on January 18, 2011

Heat stress but not inbreeding affects offensive sperm competitiveness in Callosobruchus maculatus

scientific article published on 24 July 2013

Human sperm competition: testis size, sperm production and rates of extrapair copulations

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Humidity stress and its consequences for male pre‐ and post‐copulatory fitness traits in an insect

scientific article published in 2023

Image content influences men's semen quality

scientific article

Impressions of sexual unfaithfulness and their accuracy show a degree of universality

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Inbreeding depression in the competitive fertilization success of male crickets

scientific article published on 19 November 2010

Insect sperm motility.

scientific article published on 08 April 2008

Intergenerational response to sperm competition risk in an invasive mammal

scientific article published in 2023

Intralocus tactical conflict: genetic correlations between fighters and sneakers of the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus.

scientific article

Island hopping introduces Polynesian field crickets to novel environments, genetic bottlenecks and rapid evolution ⬇️

scientific article published on March 18, 2011

Isolation and characterization of 11 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the millipede Antichiropus variabilis Attems (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae)

scientific article published on 02 March 2009

Isolation and characterization of 12 novel DNA microsatellites in the western rainbowfish, Melanotaenia australis

scientific article published on 20 March 2009

Live fast die young life history in females: evolutionary trade-off between early life mating and lifespan in female Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article

Longevity cost of reproduction for males but no longevity cost of mating or courtship for females in the male-dimorphic dung beetle Onthophagus binodis.

scientific article published on September 2003

Loss of the nuclear receptor corepressor SLIRP compromises male fertility

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Low pitched voices are perceived as masculine and attractive but do they predict semen quality in men?

scientific article

Male and female secondary sexual traits show different patterns of quantitative genetic and environmental variation in the horned beetle Onthophagus sagittarius

scientific article published on 9 September 2010

Male contest competition and the coevolution of weaponry and testes in pinnipeds ⬇️

scientific article published on 04 July 2012

Male house mice evolving with post-copulatory sexual selection sire embryos with increased viability

scientific article published on 20 October 2011

Male morph predicts investment in larval immune function in the dung beetle, Onthophagus taurus

scientific article published in 2007

Male potential reproductive rate influences mate choice in a bushcricket

scientific article published in June 1998

Male responses to sperm competition when rivals vary in number and familiarity

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Male-biased sex ratio does not promote increased sperm competitiveness in the seed beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

Male-derived cuticular hydrocarbons signal sperm competition intensity and affect ejaculate expenditure in crickets

scientific article published in January 2009

Males evolve to be more harmful under increased sexual conflict intensity in a seed beetle

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Males harm females less when competing with familiar relatives

scientific article published on 01 November 2017

Males influence maternal effects that promote sexual selection: a quantitative genetic experiment with dung beetles Onthophagus taurus

scientific article

Male‐induced costs of mating for females compensated by offspring viability benefits in an insect ⬇️

scientific article published on August 17, 2010

Maternal and paternal effects on offspring phenotype in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus.

scientific article published in June 2000

Maternal effects on male weaponry: female dung beetles produce major sons with longer horns when they perceive higher population density ⬇️

scientific article published on July 23, 2012

Maternal effects, but no good or compatible genes for sperm competitiveness in Australian crickets

scientific article published on 26 November 2009

Mating tactics determine patterns of condition dependence in a dimorphic horned beetle

scientific article published on 24 March 2010

Men's Sexual Faithfulness Judgments May Contain a Kernel of Truth

scientific article published on 5 August 2015

Microsatellite analysis of sperm-use patterns in the bushcricket Requena verticalis.

scientific article published in June 2000

Microsatellite evidence for monogamy and sex-biased recombination in the Western Australian seahorse Hippocampus angustus

scientific article published in November 1998

Model systems, taxonomic bias, and sexual selection: beyond Drosophila

scientific article published on 23 October 2013

Molecular evidence for multiple paternity in a feral population of green swordtails

scientific article published on 25 June 2008

Mutualists or parasites? Context-dependent influence of symbiotic fly larvae on carnivorous investment in the Albany pitcher plant

scientific article

Natural and sexual selection on cuticular hydrocarbons: a quantitative genetic analysis.

scientific article published in May 2019

No evidence for a trade-off between sperm length and male premating weaponry.

scientific article published on September 2015

No evidence for condition-dependent expression of male genitalia in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus.

scientific article published in July 2007

No evidence of conpopulation sperm precedence between allopatric populations of house mice

scientific article

No fecundity cost of female secondary sexual trait expression in the horned beetle Onthophagus sagittarius.

scientific article

Nongenetic paternal effects via seminal fluid

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

Nuptial gifts fail to resolve a sexual conflict in an insect

scientific article published on 15 July 2008

Nutritional geometry of paternal effects on embryo mortality

scientific article published on 01 October 2017

Offspring viability benefits but no apparent costs of mating with high quality males

scientific article

Ontogenetic changes in seminal fluid gene expression and the protein composition of cricket seminal fluid

scientific article published in March 2014

Ontogeny can provide insight into the roles of natural and sexual selection in cricket cuticular hydrocarbon evolution

scientific article published in 2022

Optimal copula duration in yellow dung flies: effects of female size and egg content.

scientific article published on April 1999

Paternal effects on the expression of a male polyphenism ⬇️

scientific article published on May 4, 2012

Paternal indirect genetic effects on offspring viability and the benefits of polyandry

scientific article published in January 2007

Patterns of paternity skew among polyandrous social insects: what can they tell us about the potential for sexual selection?

scientific article

Perceived health contributes to the attractiveness of facial symmetry, averageness, and sexual dimorphism

scientific article published in January 2007

Phenotypic plasticity in genitalia: baculum shape responds to sperm competition risk in house mice

scientific article published on 11 July 2018

Polyandry in the wild: temporal changes in female mating frequency and sperm competition intensity in natural populations of the tettigoniid Requena verticalis

scientific article published on 20 September 2007

Population density mediates the interaction between pre- and post-mating sexual selection.

scientific article published on 17 February 2018

Postcopulatory inbreeding avoidance by female crickets only revealed by molecular markers.

scientific article

Predation is associated with variation in colour pattern, but not body shape or colour reflectance, in a rainbowfish (Melanotaenia australis).

scientific article published on 28 September 2010

Predictors of facial attractiveness and health in humans.

scientific article published on 03 February 2017

Preferences across the menstrual cycle for masculinity and symmetry in photographs of male faces and bodies

scientific article

Protein and carbohydrate intakes alter gut microbial community structure in crickets: a Geometric Framework approach

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Putative sex-specific human pheromones do not affect gender perception, attractiveness ratings or unfaithfulness judgements of opposite sex faces

scientific article published on 08 March 2017

Quantitative genetic correlation between trait and preference supports a sexually selected sperm process.

scholarly article

Rapid loss of behavioral plasticity and immunocompetence under intense sexual selection

scientific article

Reactive oxygen species as universal constraints in life-history evolution.

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Relationships between sperm length and speed differ among three internally and three externally fertilizing species

scientific article published on 19 July 2013

Replicated evolutionary divergence in the cuticular hydrocarbon profile of male crickets associated with the loss of song in the Hawaiian archipelago

scientific article published on 16 September 2014

Reproductive competition promotes the evolution of female weaponry

scientific article published on 3 March 2010

Rival male relatedness does not affect ejaculate allocation as predicted by sperm competition theory

scientific article

Seminal fluid affects sperm viability in a cricket

scientific article

Sex differences in nutrient intake can reduce the potential for sexual conflict over fitness maximization by female and male crickets

scientific article published on 20 August 2019

Sex ratio bias in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus: adaptive allocation or sex-specific offspring mortality?

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Sex-biased mortality associated with inbreeding in Drosophila melanogaster.

scientific article

Sexual Selection Shapes Seminal Vesicle Secretion Gene Expression in House Mice

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Sexual conflict and correlated evolution between male persistence and female resistance traits in the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus.

scientific article published in May 2017

Sexual ornaments but not weapons trade off against testes size in primates

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Sexual selection and genital evolution

Sexual selection and its evolutionary consequences in female animals

scientific article published on 28 November 2018

Sexual selection and the evolution of secondary sexual traits: sex comb evolution in Drosophila

scientific article published on 15 March 2013

Sexual selection can remove an experimentally induced mutation load

scientific article published on 6 September 2013

Sexual selection on cuticular hydrocarbons in the Australian field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus.

scientific article

Sexual signalling by females: do unmated females increase their signalling effort?

scientific article

Sexual unfaithfulness can be judged with some accuracy from men's but not women's faces

scientific article published on 17 April 2019

Short-term phenotypic plasticity in long-chain cuticular hydrocarbons

scientific article published on 2 March 2011

Shorter sperm confer higher competitive fertilization success

scientific article

Social cues affect quantitative genetic variation and covariation in animal personality traits

scientific article published on 24 January 2019

Social manipulation of sperm competition intensity reduces seminal fluid gene expression.

scientific article published in January 2018

Socially cued seminal fluid gene expression mediates responses in ejaculate quality to sperm competition risk

scientific article published in August 2017

Sperm Displacement in the Yellow Dung Fly, Scatophaga stercoraria: An Investigation of Male and Female Processes

scientific article published in March 1999

Sperm and seminal fluid proteomes of the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus: identification of novel proteins transferred to females at mating.

scientific article

Sperm competition and the coevolution of pre- and postcopulatory traits: Weapons evolve faster than testes among onthophagine dung beetles.

scientific article published on 8 April 2016

Sperm competition and the evolution of gamete morphology in frogs

scientific article published on 01 October 2003

Sperm competition and the evolution of precopulatory weapons: Increasing male density promotes sperm competition and reduces selection on arm strength in a chorusing frog.

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Sperm competition and the evolution of precopulatory weapons: Testis size and amplexus position, but not arm strength, affect fertilization success in a chorusing frog

scientific article published on 2 December 2016

Sperm competition and the evolution of the sperm hook in house mice

scientific article published on 29 October 2009

Sperm competition does not influence sperm hook morphology in selection lines of house mice ⬇️

scientific article published on February 10, 2011

Sperm competition games between sneaks and guards: a comparative analysis using dimorphic male beetles

scientific article published on 15 October 2007

Sperm competition games played by dimorphic male beetles

scientific article published in 1999

Sperm competition games: a general model for precopulatory male-male competition

scientific article published on 10 August 2012

Sperm competition in humans: mate guarding behavior negatively correlates with ejaculate quality

scientific article

Sperm competition risk generates phenotypic plasticity in ovum fertilizability

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Sperm competition suppresses gene drive among experimentally evolving populations of house mice

scientific article published on 21 June 2017

Sperm competitiveness in frogs: slow and steady wins the race

scientific article published on 26 August 2009

Sperm swimming velocity predicts competitive fertilization success in the green swordtail Xiphophorus helleri

scientific article

Sperm viability matters in insect sperm competition

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

Sperm wars and the evolution of male fertility ⬇️

scientific article published on September 14, 2012

Status-dependent selection in the dimorphic beetle Onthophagus taurus

scientific article published in December 2001

Strategic adjustments in sperm production within and between two island populations of house mice

scientific article

The coevolution of ova defensiveness with sperm competitiveness in house mice

scientific article published on 4 March 2014

The effect of maternal and paternal immune challenge on offspring immunity and reproduction in a cricket.

scientific article published on 18 April 2014

The effects of sex hormones on immune function: a meta-analysis

scientific article

The evolution of male genitalia: patterns of genetic variation and covariation in the genital sclerites of the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus

scientific article

The evolution of polyandry: intrinsic sire effects contribute to embryo viability

scientific article published in July 2005

The evolution of polyandry: patterns of genotypic variation in female mating frequency, male fertilization success and a test of the sexy-sperm hypothesis

scientific article published in July 2003

The frequency of multiple paternity predicts variation in testes size among island populations of house mice

scientific article published on 20 September 2008

The genetics of primary and secondary sexual character trade-offs in a horned beetle.

scientific article published on 6 July 2012

The influence of diet and environment on the gut microbial community of field crickets.

scientific article published on 16 April 2018

The rapid detection of cytotoxicity using a modified human sperm survival assay

scientific article published on April 2005

The relationship between health and mating success in humans.

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

The relationship between sexual dimorphism in human faces and fluctuating asymmetry.

scientific article

Tissue-specific transcriptomics in the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus

scientific article

Towards a resolution of the lek paradox

scientific article published in Nature

Ultrastructure of spermatozoa of Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) exhibits heritable variation

scientific article published on 29 January 2011

Unfamiliar citations breed mistakes

scientific article published in July 1999

Weapons Evolve Faster Than Sperm in Bovids and Cervids

scientific article published in 2021

Why do female Callosobruchus maculatus kick their mates?

scientific article

Women can judge sexual unfaithfulness from unfamiliar men's faces.

scientific article published on 5 December 2012

X-ray micro-CT scanning reveals temporal separation of male harm and female kicking during traumatic mating in seed beetles.

scientific article

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