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How Multivariate Ejaculate Traits Determine Competitive Fertilization Success in Drosophila melanogaster by Lüpold, Stefan, Manier, Mollie K., Berben, Kirstin S., Smith, Kyle J., Daley, Bryan D., Buckley, Shannon H., Belote, John M., Pitnick, Scott

“…Success in sperm competition, occurring whenever females mate with multiple males [1], is predicted to be influenced by variation in ejaculate quality and…”
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Postcopulatory Sexual Selection Generates Speciation Phenotypes in Drosophila by Manier, Mollie K., Lüpold, Stefan, Belote, John M., Starmer, William T., Berben, Kirstin S., Ala-Honkola, Outi, Collins, William F., Pitnick, Scott

“…Identifying traits that reproductively isolate species, and the selective forces underlying their divergence, is a central goal of evolutionary biology and…”
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Female mediation of competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster by Lüpold, Stefan, Pitnick, Scott, Berben, Kirstin S., Blengini, Cecilia S., Belote, John M., Manier, Mollie K.

“…How females store and use sperm after remating can generate postcopulatory sexual selection on male ejaculate traits. Variation in ejaculate performance traits…”
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Resolving Mechanisms of Competitive Fertilization Success in Drosophila melanogaster by Manier, Mollie K, Belote, John M, Berben, Kirstin S, Novikov, David, Stuart, Will T, Pitnick, Scott

“…Our understanding of postcopulatory sexual selection has been constrained by an inability to discriminate competing sperm of different males, coupled with…”
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Size-dependent alternative male mating tactics in the yellow dung fly, Scathophaga stercoraria by Pitnick, Scott, Henn, Kali R. H., Maheux, Stephen D., Higginson, Dawn M., Hurtado-Gonzales, Jorge L., Manier, Mollie K., Berben, Kirstin S., Guptill, Chase, Uy, J. Albert C.

“…Whenever males can monopolize females and/or resources used by females, the opportunity for sexual selection will be great. The greater the variation among…”
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RAPID DIVERSIFICATION OF SPERM PRECEDENCE TRAITS AND PROCESSES AMONG THREE SIBLING DROSOPHILA SPECIES by Manier, Mollie K., Belote, John M., Berben, Kirstin S., Lüpold, Stefan, Ala-Honkola, Outi, Collins, William F., Pitnick, Scott

“…Postcopulatory sexual selection is credited with driving rapid evolutionary diversification of reproductive traits and the formation of reproductive isolating…”
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Inbreeding reveals mode of past selection on male reproductive characters in Drosophila melanogaster by Ala‐Honkola, Outi, Hosken, David J., Manier, Mollie K., Lüpold, Stefan, Droge‐Young, Elizabeth M., Berben, Kirstin S., Collins, William F., Belote, John M., Pitnick, Scott

“…Directional dominance is a prerequisite of inbreeding depression. Directionality arises when selection drives alleles that increase fitness to fixation and…”
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RAPID DIVERSIFICATION OF SPERM PRECEDENCE TRAITS AND PROCESSES AMONG THREE SIBLING DROSOPHILA SPECIES: DIVERGENT SPERM PRECEDENCE MECHANISMS by Manier, Mollie K., Belote, John M., Berben, Kirstin S., Lüpold, Stefan, Ala-Honkola, Outi, Collins, William F., Pitnick, Scott

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Inbreeding reveals mode of past selection on male reproductive characters in D rosophila melanogaster by Ala‐Honkola, Outi, Hosken, David J., Manier, Mollie K., Lüpold, Stefan, Droge‐Young, Elizabeth M., Berben, Kirstin S., Collins, William F., Belote, John M., Pitnick, Scott

“…Directional dominance is a prerequisite of inbreeding depression. Directionality arises when selection drives alleles that increase fitness to fixation and…”
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