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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2023

Female reproductive fluids 'rescue' sperm from phenotypic ageing in an external fertilizer.

Jessica H Hadlow, Jonathan P Evans, Rowan A Lymbery

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Per capita sperm metabolism is density dependent.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jessica H HadlowCentre for Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-0571-5254
Jonathan P EvansCentre for Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-2603-6832
Rowan A LymberyCentre for Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8041-6169
The University of Western Australia · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Female reproductive fluids (FRFs) serve key reproductive functions in sexually reproducing animals, including modifying the way sperm swim and detect eggs, and influencing sperm lifespan. Despite the central role of FRF during fertilization, we know surprisingly little about sperm-FRF interactions under different environmental conditions. Theory suggests that in external fertilizers FRF may 'rescue' sperm from ageing effects as they search to fertilize eggs. Here, we test the interaction between these two fundamental properties of the fertilization environment, ejaculate age (i.e. time since ejaculation) and FRF, on a range of functional sperm phenotypes in a broadcast spawning mussel,

Indexed as

FertilizersSemenAgingAnimalsFemaleGonadotropin-Releasing HormoneMalePhenotypeSpermatozoaSperm MotilityFertilizersGonadotropin-Releasing Hormonechemoattractantsphenotypic plasticitypostcopulatory sexual selectionsperm longevitysperm senescencesperm velocity-longevity trade-off

Identifiers

PMID37221848
PMCPMC10206448
OpenAlexW4377939026

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