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William T. Starmer

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Postcopulatory sexual selection generates speciation phenotypes in Drosophila.

2013

Background: Identifying traits that reproductively isolate species and the selective forces underlying their divergence is a central goal of evolutionary biology and speciation research. There is growing recognition that postcopulatory sexual selection which can drive rapid diversification of interacting ejaculate and female reproductive tract traits that mediate sperm competition may be an engine of speciation. Conspecific sperm precedence (CSP) is a taxonomically widespread form of reproductive isolation but the selective causes and divergent traits responsible for CSP are poorly understood. Results: To test the hypothesis that postcopulatory sexual selection can generate reproductive iso…

0106 biological sciencesMaleReproductive IsolationGenetic SpeciationGreen Fluorescent ProteinsAllopatric speciation1100 General Agricultural and Biological SciencesBiology010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesGeneral Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular BiologyInseminationEcological speciation10127 Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies03 medical and health sciencesSexual Behavior AnimalSpecies Specificity1300 General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular BiologyGenetic algorithmCopulationAnimalsSperm competition030304 developmental biologyGenetics0303 health sciencesAgricultural and Biological Sciences(all)Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)fungiReproductive isolationSpermSpermatozoaLuminescent ProteinsSexual selectionFertilizationta1181570 Life sciences; biology590 Animals (Zoology)Sperm HeadDrosophilaFemaleGeneral Agricultural and Biological SciencesSperm precedenceCurrent biology : CB
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Data from: Postcopulatory sexual selection generates speciation phenotypes in Drosophila

2013

Background: Identifying traits that reproductively isolate species, and the selective forces underlying their divergence, is a central goal of evolutionary biology and speciation research. There is growing recognition that postcopulatory sexual selection, which can drive rapid diversification of interacting ejaculate and female reproductive tract traits that mediate sperm competition, may be an engine of speciation. Conspecific sperm precedence (CSP) is a taxonomically widespread form of reproductive isolation, but the selective causes and divergent traits responsible for CSP are poorly understood. Results: To test the hypothesis that postcopulatory sexual selection can generate reproductiv…

medicine and health careDrosophila mauritianafemale sperm ejectionfungiLife SciencesMedicinesperm lengthConspecific sperm precedencesperm displacementsperm storage
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