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All posts with the tag "Scientific literature" are written by referring to the primary literature.
Category Archives: Sperm competition
Fruit fly sex lives impact effectiveness of pest control strategies
Scientists in Australia have been hard at work watching fruit flies have sex. Why? To figure out how fly sex affects your food. It is a fact of life that the facts of life can cause problems, especially when fruit … Continue reading
Dynein proteins give fly sperm a competitive edge
Every species has some genes that never existed before in evolutionary history, but where do new genes come from? Many new genes are made by copy-and-paste: old genes get copied, rearranged and pasted together with parts of other genes, plus … Continue reading
Gametes to spare–two stories for you!
I haven’t been doing that much interwebbing lately, but I thought it would be best not to skip the weekly links again. However, I hesitate to call this a link “roundup” seeing as I only have 2 stories for today: … Continue reading
Posted in Eggs and sperm, Insect reproduction, Sperm competition
Tagged beetles, eggs, parasitism, sperm, squid, strength in numbers
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Around the interwebs: New weekly link roundup!
There are a lot of studies and news articles out there that I would love to blog about but, frankly, I just don’t have the time. Thankfully, usually someone else did have the time to write about it. So, I’ve … Continue reading
Crickets customize ejaculates in face of competition
In a species of crickets, males are able to take advantage of investments made by other males to increase the quality of their own sperm. New research from Leigh W. Simmons and Maxine Beveridge at the University of Western Australia … Continue reading
Posted in Sperm competition
Tagged crickets, custom ejaculates, Scientific literature
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