Add to ORKGSperm storage is a widespread phenomenon across taxa and mating systems but its consequences for central fitness parameters, such as sex ratios, has rarely been investigated. In Australian painted dragon lizards (Ctenophorus pictus), we describe elsewhere that male reproductive success via sperm competition is largely an effect of sperm storage. That is, sperm being stored in the female reproductive tract out-compete more recently inseminated sperm in subsequent ovarian cycles. Here we look at the consequences of such sperm storage for sex allocation in the same species, which has genetic sex determination. We show that stored sperm have a 23% higher probability of producing sons than daughters. Thus, shifts in sex ratio, for example over t...
This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published arti...
Multiple mating in female animals is something of a paradox because it can either be risky (e.g., hi...
Multiple mating in female animals is something of a paradox because it can either be risky (e.g., hi...
Sperm storage is a widespread phenomenon across taxa and mating systems but its consequences for cen...
Sexual selection may take place before or after mating and may involve a large number of different m...
The ability to produce viable offspring without recently mating, either through sperm storage or par...
Multiple paternity is ubiquitous within the polyphyletic group called \u27reptiles\u27, especially w...
Female common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis) typically reproduce annually and lay more than one clu...
This work was supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC DP130102998 grant to MJW and RWB), N...
In sand lizards (Lacerta agilis), males with more and brighter nuptial coloration also have more DNA...
Sperm storage is a central phenomenon to the reproductive cycle of a wide range of vertebrate specie...
SummaryCurrent paradigms may substantially underestimate the complexity of reptilian sex determinati...
Current paradigms may substantially underestimate the complexity of reptilian sex determination. In ...
Maternal effects and early environmental conditions are important in shaping offspring developmental...
We demonstrate that extending copulation enhances probability of paternity in sand lizards and that ...
This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published arti...
Multiple mating in female animals is something of a paradox because it can either be risky (e.g., hi...
Multiple mating in female animals is something of a paradox because it can either be risky (e.g., hi...
Sperm storage is a widespread phenomenon across taxa and mating systems but its consequences for cen...
Sexual selection may take place before or after mating and may involve a large number of different m...
The ability to produce viable offspring without recently mating, either through sperm storage or par...
Multiple paternity is ubiquitous within the polyphyletic group called \u27reptiles\u27, especially w...
Female common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis) typically reproduce annually and lay more than one clu...
This work was supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC DP130102998 grant to MJW and RWB), N...
In sand lizards (Lacerta agilis), males with more and brighter nuptial coloration also have more DNA...
Sperm storage is a central phenomenon to the reproductive cycle of a wide range of vertebrate specie...
SummaryCurrent paradigms may substantially underestimate the complexity of reptilian sex determinati...
Current paradigms may substantially underestimate the complexity of reptilian sex determination. In ...
Maternal effects and early environmental conditions are important in shaping offspring developmental...
We demonstrate that extending copulation enhances probability of paternity in sand lizards and that ...
This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published arti...
Multiple mating in female animals is something of a paradox because it can either be risky (e.g., hi...
Multiple mating in female animals is something of a paradox because it can either be risky (e.g., hi...