RAPID DIVERSIFICATION OF SPERM PRECEDENCE TRAITS AND PROCESSES AMONG THREE SIBLING DROSOPHILA SPECIES

@article{Manier2013RAPIDDO,
  title={RAPID DIVERSIFICATION OF SPERM PRECEDENCE TRAITS AND PROCESSES AMONG THREE SIBLING DROSOPHILA SPECIES},
  author={Mollie K. Manier and John M. Belote and Kirstin S. Berben and Stefan L{\"u}pold and Outi Ala-Honkola and William F. Collins and Scott Pitnick},
  journal={Evolution},
  year={2013},
  volume={67}
}
Postcopulatory sexual selection is credited with driving rapid evolutionary diversification of reproductive traits and the formation of reproductive isolating barriers between species. This judgment, however, has largely been inferred rather than demonstrated due to general lack of knowledge about processes and traits underlying variation in competitive fertilization success. Here, we resolved processes determining sperm fate in twice‐mated females, using transgenic Drosophila simulans and… 
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