Sperm competition games: a prospective analysis of risk assessment

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1988 • 8,244 citations

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1982 • 6,405 citations

Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating Systems

1984 • 1,841 citations

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1981 • 992 citations

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

1998 • 790 citations

Sperm competition games: raffles and roles

1990 • 668 citations

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1996 • 658 citations

Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating Strategies

1984 • 604 citations

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

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Size and Function of Mammalian Testes in Relation to Body Size

1986 • 552 citations

Why are there so many tiny sperm? Sperm competition and the maintenance of two sexes

1982 • 497 citations

Associations between body size, mating pattern, testis size and sperm lengths across butterflies

1994 • 417 citations

Sperm competition games: sneaks and extra-pair copulations

1990 • 412 citations

Sexual Selection and Its Component Parts, Somatic and Genital Selection, as Illustrated by Man and the Great Apes

1979 • 339 citations

Sperm competition games: individual assessment of sperm competition intensity by group spawners

1996 • 312 citations

Ejaculate quality, testes size and sperm competition in primates

1988 • 289 citations

Sexual conflict resulting from adaptations to sperm competition

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Sperm competition games: sperm size and sperm number under adult control

1993 • 275 citations

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1995 • 265 citations

Effects of alternative male mating strategies on characteristics of sperm production in the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): theoretical and empirical investigations

1995 • 265 citations

Mass and production rate of ejaculates in relation to monandry/polyandry in butterflies

1989 • 257 citations

Sperm competition in bats

1997 • 252 citations

Sperm Competition, Sperm Depletion, Paternal Care, and Relative Testis Size in Birds

1991 • 251 citations

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

1995 • 244 citations

Ejaculate Quality, Testes Size and Sperm Production in Mammals

1989 • 242 citations

Risk of sperm competition directly affects ejaculate size in the Mediterranean fruit fly

1991 • 222 citations

Male crickets increase sperm number in relation to competition and female size

1996 • 219 citations

Evolution of Sperm Priority Patterns in Spiders

1984 • 209 citations

Testes size, ejaculate quality and sperm competition in birds

1988 • 195 citations

Effects of risks of sperm competition on the numbers of eupyrene and apyrene sperm ejaculated by the moth Plodia interpunctella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

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Sexual Dimorphism in Size, Relative Size of Testes, and Mating Systems in North American Voles

1990 • 166 citations

Ejaculate size varies with socio‐sexual situation in an insect

1991 • 162 citations

Sperm Competition Games: External Fertilization and “Adapative” Infertility

1996 • 162 citations

Intrasexual selection and testis size in strepsirhine primates

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Sperm competition games: sperm size and number under gametic control

1993 • 152 citations

Sperm Competition, Testes Size, and Breeding Systems in Primates

1984 • 148 citations

Ejaculate dynamics in butterflies: a strategy for maximizing fertilization success?

1996 • 144 citations

Number of sperm in human ejaculates varies in accordance with sperm competition theory

1989 • 143 citations

Number of sperm in human ejaculates varies in accordance with sperm competition theory (1989)

2006 • 136 citations

Ejaculate quality and the success of extra-pair copulations in the zebra finch

1995 • 122 citations

Protandry and mate assessment in the wartbiter Decticus verrucivorus (Orthoptera : Tettigoniidae)

1992 • 112 citations

Sperm competition and variation in zebra mating behavior

1990 • 110 citations

Sperm competition in frogs: testis size and a ‘sterile male’ experiment on Chiromantis xerampelina (Rhacophoridae)

1993 • 104 citations

Copulation duration and sperm precedence in the stalk-eyed fly Cyrtodiopsis whitei (Diptera : Diopsidae)

1993 • 104 citations

Male mate choice as predicted by sperm competition in thirteen-lined ground squirrels

1990 • 95 citations

Sperm competition selects for male mate choice and protandry in the bushcricket, Requena verticalis (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae)

1994 • 85 citations

Copulatory tactics in relation to sperm competition in Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep

1988 • 83 citations

Sperm Competition in Mammals: A Comparative Study of Male Roles and Relative Investment in Sperm Production

1993 • 82 citations

Sperm Competition Games: Inter- and Intra-species Results of a Continuous External Fertilization Model

1997 • 67 citations

Variation in Rat Ejaculates Consistent with the Kamikaze-Sperm Hypothesis

1990 • 67 citations

Mating tactics in external fertilizers when sperm is limited

1996 • 49 citations

Do Primates Experience Sperm Competition?

1995 • 44 citations

Variation in Spermatophore Size in the Armyworm, Pseudaletia separata(Lepidoptera:Noctuidae)in Relation to Rearing Density

1992 • 30 citations

The Producer/Scrounger Model and its Relevance to Sexuality

1984 • 30 citations

Sperm Competition Games: a General Approach to Risk Assessment

1998 • 29 citations

Sperm competition in frogs: testis size and a 'sterile male' experiment on Chiromantis xerampelina (Rhacophoridae)

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