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Postmating Female Control: 20 Years of Cryptic Female Choice by Firman, Renée C., Gasparini, Clelia, Manier, Mollie K., Pizzari, Tommaso

“…Cryptic female choice (CFC) represents postmating intersexual selection arising from female-driven mechanisms at or after mating that bias sperm use and impact…”
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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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How female × male and male × male interactions influence competitive fertilization in Drosophila melanogaster by Lüpold, Stefan, Reil, Jonathan Bradley, Manier, Mollie K., Zeender, Valérian, Belote, John M., Pitnick, Scott

“…How males and females contribute to joint reproductive success has been a long‐standing question in sexual selection. Under postcopulatory sexual selection,…”
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Genome-wide polymorphisms show unexpected targets of natural selection by Pespeni, Melissa H, Garfield, David A, Manier, Mollie K, Palumbi, Stephen R

“…Natural selection can act on all the expressed genes of an individual, leaving signatures of genetic differentiation or diversity at many loci across the…”
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Low‐mobility sperm phenotype in the domestic turkey: Impact on sperm morphometry and early embryonic death by Manier, Mollie K., Welch, Glenn, Van Nispen, Christiaan, Bakst, Murray R., Long, Julie

“…Contents The sperm mobility assay measures the ability of sperm to swim through a dense layer of Accudenz®, and the sperm mobility phenotype has been shown to…”
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Population genetic analysis identifies source-sink dynamics for two sympatric garter snake species (Thamnophis elegans and Thamnophis sirtalis) by MANIER, MOLLIE K, ARNOLD, STEVAN J

“…Population genetic structure can be shaped by multiple ecological and evolutionary factors, but the genetic consequences of these factors for multiple species…”
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Ecological correlates of population genetic structure: a comparative approach using a vertebrate metacommunity by Manier, Mollie K, Arnold, Stevan J

“…Identifying ecological factors associated with population genetic differentiation is important for understanding microevolutionary processes and guiding the…”
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How sexual selection can drive the evolution of costly sperm ornamentation by Lüpold, Stefan, Manier, Mollie K., Puniamoorthy, Nalini, Schoff, Christopher, Starmer, William T., Luepold, Shannon H. Buckley, Belote, John M., Pitnick, Scott

“…The ‘big-sperm paradox’, the observed production of few, gigantic sperm by some fruit flies (seemingly at odds with fundamental theory addressing how sexual…”
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Intraspecific divergence in sperm morphology of the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis: implications for selection in broadcast spawners by Manier, Mollie K, Palumbi, Stephen R

“…Sperm morphology can be highly variable among species, but less is known about patterns of population differentiation within species. Most studies of sperm…”
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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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Geographic variation in the long-nosed snake, Rhinocheilus lecontei (Colubridae): beyond the subspecies debate by MANIER, MOLLIE K.

“…Scalation, colour pattern, linear and geometric morphometrics were used to quantify geographical differentiation in the long‐nosed snake, Rhinocheilus…”
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Male Drosophila melanogaster adjust ejaculate size based on female mating status, fecundity, and age by Luepold, Stefan, Manier, Mollie K, Ala-Honkola, Outi, Belote, John M, Pitnick, Scott

“…In contrast to early predictions, it is now widely accepted that males incur substantive costs from ejaculate production. Hence, males are predicted to…”
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Multiple mechanisms of cryptic female choice act on intraspecific male variation in Drosophila simulans by Ala-Honkola, Outi, Manier, Mollie K.

“…Postcopulatory sexual selection can arise when females mate with multiple males and is usually mediated by an interaction between the sexes. Cryptic female…”
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A putative novel role for Eip74EF in male reproduction in promoting sperm elongation at the cost of male fecundity by Chebbo, Sharif, Josway, Sarah, Belote, John M., Manier, Mollie K.

“…Spermatozoa are the most morphologically variable cell type, yet little is known about genes controlling natural variation in sperm shape. Drosophila fruit…”
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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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Costs and benefits of giant sperm and sperm storage organs in Drosophila melanogaster by Zajitschek, Susanne, Zajitschek, Felix, Josway, Sarah, Al Shabeeb, Reem, Weiner, Halli, Manier, Mollie K.

“…In Drosophila, long sperm are favoured in sperm competition based on the length of the female's primary sperm storage organ, the seminal receptacle (SR). This…”
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An Analytical Framework for Estimating Fertilization Bias and the Fertilization Set from Multiple Sperm-Storage Organs by Manier, Mollie K., Lüpold, Stefan, Pitnick, Scott, Starmer, William T.

“…How sperm from competing males are used to fertilize eggs is poorly understood yet has important implications for postcopulatory sexual selection. Sperm may be…”
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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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