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Can Sexual Selection Drive the Evolution of Sperm Cell Structure?

Cells - 17 May 2021

Simmons Leigh W, Garcia-Gonzalez Francisco

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Sperm cells have undergone an extraordinarily divergent evolution among metazoan animals. Parker recognized that because female animals frequently mate with more than one male, sexual selection would continue after mating and impose strong selection on sperm cells to maximize fertilization success. Comparative analyses among species have revealed a general relationship between the strength of selection from sperm...

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PMID: 34067752
DOI: 10.3390/cells10051227
PMCID: PMC8156441

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