Postcopulatory sexual selection

The Evolution of Life-histories

1993 • 12,395 citations

The descent of man and selection in relation to sex

1907 • 11,265 citations

Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man

2017 • 6,982 citations

Sexual Selection

1994 • 6,925 citations

Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits

2002 • 6,393 citations

THE MEASUREMENT OF SELECTION ON CORRELATED CHARACTERS

1983 • 4,930 citations

Genetics and analysis of quantitative traits

1999 • 4,350 citations

SPERM COMPETITION AND ITS EVOLUTIONARY CONSEQUENCES IN THE INSECTS

1970 • 3,592 citations

Intra-sexual selection in Drosophila

1948 • 3,575 citations

The evolution of life histories

1993 • 2,748 citations

Female Control

1996 • 2,692 citations

Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection

1998 • 2,126 citations

The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex /

1871 • 1,920 citations

Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating Systems

1984 • 1,841 citations

Sexual Selection and Reproductive Competition in Insects

1979 • 1,671 citations

Cost of mating in Drosophila melanogaster females is mediated by male accessory gland products

1995 • 1,393 citations

The rapid evolution of reproductive proteins

2002 • 1,313 citations

Sexually antagonistic male adaptation triggered by experimental arrest of female evolution

1996 • 1,066 citations

SEX CHROMOSOMES AND THE EVOLUTION OF SEXUAL DIMORPHISM

1984 • 1,061 citations

Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection

1999 • 1,041 citations

Genetic compatibility, mate choice and patterns of parentage: Invited Review

2000 • 955 citations

Sexual selection and speciation

2001 • 893 citations

Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Ejaculates: Towards a Theory Base

1998 • 790 citations

Sexual selection and the potential reproductive rates of males and females

1991 • 774 citations

Extra-pair paternity results from female preference for high-quality males in the blue tit

1992 • 730 citations

Developmental Integration and the Evolution of Pleiotropy

1996 • 730 citations

Differential allocation: tests, mechanisms and implications

2000 • 703 citations

A male accessory gland peptide that regulates reproductive behavior of female D. melanogaster

1988 • 662 citations

Cryptic Female Choice and Its Implications in the Scorpionfly Harpobittacus nigriceps

1983 • 662 citations

Experimental removal of sexual selection reverses intersexual antagonistic coevolution and removes a reproductive load

1999 • 634 citations

The origin and evolution of gamete dimorphism and the male-female phenomenon

1972 • 623 citations

Negative genetic correlation for adult fitness between sexes reveals ontogenetic conflict in Drosophila

2001 • 608 citations

Genotype-environment interactions and the maintenance of polygenic variation.

1989 • 594 citations

Sperm Competition in Fishes: The Evolution of Testis Size and Ejaculate Characteristics

1997 • 581 citations

Human Sperm Competition

1984 • 572 citations

Dual Function of the Damselfly Penis: Sperm Removal and Transfer

1979 • 561 citations

Good-genes effects in sexual selection

1999 • 552 citations

Rapid evolution of reproductive barriers driven by sexual conflict

2000 • 536 citations

Comparative evidence for the evolution of genitalia by sexual selection

1998 • 528 citations

Evolutionary EST analysis identifies rapidly evolving male reproductive proteins inDrosophila

2001 • 521 citations

Human mtDNA Haplogroups Associated with High or Reduced Spermatozoa Motility

2000 • 501 citations

Sexual conflict and speciation

1998 • 478 citations

Positive Darwinian selection drives the evolution of several female reproductive proteins in mammals

2001 • 451 citations

Male phenotype, fertility, and the pursuit of extra-pair copulations by female birds

1994 • 429 citations

Seminal fluid-mediated fitness traits in Drosophila

2001 • 429 citations

Quantitative trait loci in Drosophila

2001 • 427 citations

Genetic dissection of phenotypic diversity in farm animals

2001 • 422 citations

MATING FREQUENCY AND FECUNDITY IN INSECTS

1988 • 403 citations

Why Do Females Mate with Multiple Males? The Sexually Selected Sperm Hypothesis

1995 • 397 citations

Sperm Competition in Insects: Mechanisms and the Potential for Selection

1998 • 391 citations

Dominant rams lose out by sperm depletion

2001 • 384 citations

Positive selection and sequence rearrangements generate extensive polymorphism in the gamete recognition protein bindin

1996 • 370 citations

Sperm mobility determines the outcome of sperm competition in the domestic fowl

1999 • 368 citations

Genetic polymorphism for alternative mating behaviour in lekking male ruff Philomachus pugnax

1995 • 365 citations

Female feral fowl eject sperm of subdominant males

2000 • 363 citations

Evolution of Gamete Recognition Proteins

1998 • 355 citations

Equal mating success among male reproductive strategies in a marine isopod

1991 • 337 citations

All males are not created equal: Fertility differences depend on gamete recognition polymorphisms in sea urchins

1999 • 325 citations

Condition-dependent signalling of genetic variation in stalk-eyed flies

2000 • 321 citations

EVOLUTION OF MULTIPLE KINDS OF FEMALE SPERM‐STORAGE ORGANS INDROSOPHILA

1999 • 321 citations

CRYPTIC FEMALE CHOICE: CRITERIA FOR ESTABLISHING FEMALE SPERM CHOICE

1998 • 297 citations

The estimation of genetic correlations from phenotypic correlations: a test of Cheverud's conjecture

1995 • 292 citations

Multiple mating by females: a perspective from quantitative genetics

1987 • 282 citations

Sexual conflict selects for male and female reproductive characters

2001 • 259 citations

A Screen for Genes That Function Downstream of Ras1 During Drosophila Eye Development

1996 • 246 citations

Sexual conflict: males with highest mating success convey the lowest fertilization benefits to females

1995 • 244 citations

Forward and Reverse Genetic Approaches to Behavior in the Mouse

1994 • 243 citations

Sperm size and sperm competition in birds

1992 • 225 citations

THE EVOLUTION OF SPERM SIZE IN BIRDS

1997 • 219 citations

Concerted Evolution in an Egg Receptor for a Rapidly Evolving Abalone Sperm Protein

1998 • 210 citations

Sperm Viability and Sperm Competition in Insects

2002 • 210 citations

Non-fertile sperm delay female remating

1999 • 206 citations

Copulatory courtship and cryptic female choice in red flour beetlesTribolium castaneum

2000 • 201 citations

Sperm mobility: mechanisms of fertilizing efficiency, genetic variation and phenotypic relationship with male status in the domestic fowl,Gallus gallus domesticus

2002 • 191 citations

Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition

2001 • 188 citations

Male display rate reveals ejaculate characteristics in the Trinidadian guppy,Poecilia reticulata.

1997 • 188 citations

Molecular Population Genetics of Male Accessory Gland Proteins in Drosophila

2000 • 187 citations

Female genotype affects male success in sperm competition

1997 • 186 citations

Coevolution of sperm and female reproductive tract morphology in stalk–eyed flies

1999 • 185 citations

Developmental genetics of chromosome I spermatogenesis-defective mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

1988 • 181 citations

Sexually Antagonistic Cytonuclear Fitness Interactions in Drosophila melanogaster

2001 • 176 citations

Correlated effects of sperm competition and postmating female mortality

2000 • 172 citations

POSITIVE GENETIC CORRELATION BETWEEN PARASITE RESISTANCE AND BODY SIZE IN A FREE-LIVING UNGULATE POPULATION

2001 • 170 citations

Y chromosomal fertility factors kl-2 and kl-3 of Drosophila melanogaster encode dynein heavy chain polypeptides

2000 • 166 citations

Genetics of Angiosperm Pollen

1989 • 166 citations

Y chromosome polymorphism is a strong determinant of male fitness in Drosophila melanogaster

2001 • 163 citations

The role of male accessory gland protein Acp36DE in sperm competition inDrosophila melanogaster

2000 • 162 citations

Evolution of sperm size in nematodes: sperm competition favours larger sperm

1999 • 154 citations

Male fitness increases when females are eliminated from gene pool: Implications for the Y chromosome

1998 • 153 citations

Multiple mating, sperm competition and meiotic drive

1995 • 152 citations

Repeated Copulation and Sperm Precedence: Paternity Assurance for a Male Brooding Water Bug

1979 • 148 citations

CRYPTIC FEMALE CHOICE IN THE YELLOW DUNG FLY SCATHOPHAGA STERCORARIA (L.)

2000 • 136 citations

Complex Female Reproductive Tract Morphology: Its Possible Use in Postcopulatory Female Choice

1998 • 128 citations

The sexually‐selected sperm hypothesis: sexbiased inheritance and sexual antagonism

2002 • 122 citations

CRITERIA FOR DEMONSTRATING FEMALE SPERM CHOICE

2000 • 121 citations

SPECIATION AND FEATHER ORNAMENTATION IN BIRDS

1998 • 117 citations

GENE INTERACTIONS FROM MATERNAL EFFECTS

2000 • 108 citations

Sperm competition or sperm selection: no evidence for female influence over paternity in yellow dung flies Scatophaga stercoraria

1996 • 105 citations

Quantitative Genetics of Sperm Precedence in Drosophila melanogaster

1997 • 105 citations

Estimation of additive genetic variance when base populations are selected.

1990 • 100 citations

Only long sperm are fertilization-competent in six sperm-heteromorphic Drosophila species

1998 • 94 citations

Every Sperm Is Sacred: Fertilization in Caenorhabditis elegans

2001 • 93 citations

Female behaviour, sexual competition and mate guarding in the blue crab,Callinectes sapidus

1998 • 91 citations

Female control of paternity in the internally fertilizing compound ascidian Diplosoma listerianum. II. Investigation of male mating success using RAPD markers

1996 • 89 citations

Stochastic WNT signaling between nonequivalent cells regulates adhesion but not fate in the two-cell leech embryo

2001 • 84 citations

DEFINING AND DEMONSTRATING POSTCOPULATORY FEMALE CHOICE?AGAIN

2000 • 81 citations

Promiscuity : an evolutonary history of sperm competition and sexual conflict

2000 • 79 citations

Genetic interaction between male mating strategy and sex ratio in a marine isopod

1997 • 78 citations

A Possible Explanation for Cryptic Female Choice in the Yellow Dung Fly, Scathophaga stercoraria (L.)

1998 • 78 citations

The Relative Impact of Extra-Pair Fertilizations on Variation in Male and Female Reproductive Success in Dark-Eyed Juncos (Junco hyemalis)

1998 • 78 citations

Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition and Sexual Conflict

2000 • 78 citations

Fertilization and early development in Beroe ovata

1984 • 73 citations

Human Sperm Competition

2021 • 68 citations

No evidence for killer sperm or other selective interactions between human spermatozoa in ejaculates of different malesin vitro

1999 • 66 citations

No evidence of sperm selection by female common shrews

1997 • 65 citations

Sperm Competition in the Absence of Fertilization in Caenorhabditis elegans

1999 • 61 citations

Mutations that disrupt the morphogenesis and localization of a sperm-specific organelle in Caenorhabditis elegans

1989 • 60 citations

Contrasting Levels of Nucleotide Diversity on the Avian Z and W Sex Chromosomes

2001 • 58 citations

Seminal fluid causes temporarily reduced egg hatch in previously mated females

2000 • 56 citations

spe-12 Encodes a Sperm Cell Surface Protein That Promotes Spermiogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans

1999 • 49 citations

Embryonic growth and the evolution of the mammalian Y chromosome. I. The Y as an attractor for selfish growth factors

1994 • 49 citations

The effectiveness of competitive male inseminations in golden hamsters, Mesocricetus auratus, depends on an interaction of mating order, time delay between males, and the time of mating relative to ovulation

1989 • 48 citations

Ejaculate allocation by male sand martins,Riparia riparia

2001 • 47 citations

Sexual selection: Conflict, kindness and chicanery

2001 • 44 citations

Polymorphism in Genes That Influence Sperm Displacement

1996 • 44 citations

Internal female reproductive anatomy and genital interactions during copula in the yellow dung fly,Scathophaga stercoraria(Diptera: Scathophagidae)

1999 • 39 citations

Cyclic Expression of HLA Class I and II Molecules on the Surface of Purified Human Spermatozoa and Their Control by Serum Inhibin B Levels

1999 • 36 citations

Strategic allocation of ejaculates by male Adélie penguins

2000 • 35 citations

Comparison of genetic variation in growth performance on normal and novel host plants in a local population of a herbivorous ladybird beetle, Epilachna vigintioctomaculata

2001 • 34 citations

SPERM PREFERENCE IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER †

1972 • 33 citations

Genes for Sexual Behavior

1998 • 24 citations

Developmental Expression and Characterization of FS39, a Testis Complementary DNA Encoding an Intermediate Filament-Related Protein of the Sperm Fibrous Sheath1

2001 • 21 citations

Precision in mouse behavior genetics

2001 • 21 citations

Biases in sperm use in the mallard: no evidence for selection by females based on sperm genotype

1999 • 18 citations

Novel alternatively spliced mRNA (1c) of the protein kinase A RIα subunit is implicated in haploid germ cell specific expression

2001 • 15 citations

Cloning and Characterization of a Complementary Deoxyribonucleic Acid Encoding Haploid-Specific Alanine-Rich Acidic Protein Located on Chromosome-X

2000 • 15 citations

The Mechanism of Sperm Competition in Birds

1996 • 14 citations

Sexual selection: separating genes from imprinting

1999 • 3 citations