Publications
2022
Santacà M, Devigili A, Gasparini C (2022). Timing matters: female receptivity and mate choice in the zebrafish (Danio rerio). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 76, 149. link here
Pinzoni L, Poli F, Grapputo A, Rasotto MB, Gasparini C (2022). Female reproductive fluid increases the opportunities for post-mating sexual selection by prolonging egg fertilization window. Am Nat, online link here
Polverino G, Soman VR, Karakaya M, Gasparini C, Evans JP, Porfiri M (2022). Ecology of fear in highly invasive fish revealed by robots. iScience, 103529.
Santacà M, Devigili A, Gasparini C (2022). Timing matters: female receptivity and mate choice in the zebrafish (Danio rerio). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 76, 149. link here
Pinzoni L, Poli F, Grapputo A, Rasotto MB, Gasparini C (2022). Female reproductive fluid increases the opportunities for post-mating sexual selection by prolonging egg fertilization window. Am Nat, online link here
Polverino G, Soman VR, Karakaya M, Gasparini C, Evans JP, Porfiri M (2022). Ecology of fear in highly invasive fish revealed by robots. iScience, 103529.
2021
Devigili A, Cattelan S, Gasparini C (2021). Sperm Accumulation Induced by the Female Reproductive Fluid: Putative Evidence of Chemoattraction Using a New Tool. Cells, 10(9), 2472. link here
Cattelan S, Gasparini C (2021). Male sperm storage impairs sperm quality in the zebrafish. Scientific Reports 11, 16689
Devigili A, Cattelan S, Gasparini C (2021). Sperm Accumulation Induced by the Female Reproductive Fluid: Putative Evidence of Chemoattraction Using a New Tool. Cells, 10(9), 2472. link here
Cattelan S, Gasparini C (2021). Male sperm storage impairs sperm quality in the zebrafish. Scientific Reports 11, 16689
2020
Gasparini C, Pilastro A, Evans JP. (2020) The role of female reproductive fluid in sperm competition. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B
375: 20200077. link here
Pauletto M, Cattelan S, Pilastro A, Babbucci M, Bargelloni L, Gasparini C, (2020) Molecular insights into post‐mating immune response in a fish with internal fertilization. Journal of Evolutionary Biology link
2019
Speechley EM, Gasparini C, Evans JP (2019) Female guppies increase their propensity for polyandry as an inbreeding avoidance strategy. Animal Behaviour 157, 87-93 link
C Gasparini C, Speechley EM, Polverino G (2019). The bold and the sperm: positive association between boldness and sperm number in the guppy. Royal Society open science 6 (7), 190474 link
Poli F, Immler S, Gasparini C (2019). Effects of ovarian fluid on sperm traits and its implications for cryptic female choice in zebrafish. Behavioral Ecology 30 (5), 1298–1305 link
Niemelä PT, Niehoff PP , Gasparini C, Dingemanse NJ, Tuni C (2019). Crickets become behaviourally more stable when raised under higher temperatures. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73 (6), 81 link
Gasparini C, Devigili A & Pilastro A (2019). Sexual selection and ageing: interplay between pre-and post-copulatory traits senescence in the guppy. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286(1897), 20182873. link
Polverino G, Palmas BM, Evans JP & Gasparini C (2019). Individual plasticity in alternative reproductive tactics declines with social experience in male guppies. Animal Behaviour 148, 113-121. link
2018
Gasparini C & Evans JP (2018) Female control over multiple matings increases the opportunity for postcopulatory sexual selection, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285(1888), 20181505. link
Gasparini C, Daymond E & Evans JP (2018) Extreme fertilization bias towards freshly inseminated sperm in a species exhibiting prolonged female sperm storage. Royal Society Open Science 5: 172195. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.172195 link
Devigili A, Fitzpatrick JL, Gasparini C, Ramnarine IW, Pilastro A & Evans JP (2018) Possible glimpses into early speciation: the effect of ovarian fluid on sperm velocity accords with post‐copulatory isolation between two guppy populations. Journal of evolutionary biology 31 (1), 66-74 doi:10.1111/jeb.13194 link
Gasparini C, Lu C, Dingemanse NJ & Tuni C (2018), Paternal-effects in a terrestrial ectotherm are temperature dependent but no evidence for adaptive effects. Functional Ecology 32 (4), 1011-1021. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13022 link
2017
Grueber CE, Fitzpatrick JL, Devigili A, Gasparini C, Ramnarine IW, & Evans JP (2017) Population demography and heterozygosity‐fitness correlations in natural guppy populations: an examination using sexually selected fitness traits. Molecular Ecology 26(18), 4631
JP Evans, RA Lymbery, KS Wiid, MM Rahman & Gasparini C (2017) Sperm as moderators of environmentally induced paternal effects in a livebearing fish. Biology Letters 13 (4), 20170087 link
--> Highlighted in Journal of Experimental Biology link
Gasparini C, Dosselli R & Evans JP (2017) Sperm storage by males causes changes in sperm phenotype and influences the reproductive fitness of males and their sons. Evolution Letters 1 (1): 16-25 link
Firman R, Gasparini C, Manier M & Pizzari T (2017) Postmating female control: 20 years of cryptic female choice. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32 (5): 368-382 link
--> See also: Reply to Eberhard. Cryptic Female Choice: A General Phenomenon 2017 link
2016
Tuni C, Perdigón-Ferreira J, Fritz Y, Munoz Menses A & Gasparini C (2016) Impaired sperm quality, delayed mating but no costs for offspring fitness in crickets winning a fight. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29 (8): 1643–1647 link
Cattelan S, Evans JP, Pilastro A & Gasparini C (2016) The effect of sperm production and mate availability on patterns of alternative mating tactics in the guppy Poecilia reticulata. Animal Behaviour 112: 105-110 link
2015
Gasparini C, Congiu L & Pilastro A (2015) MHC similarity and sexual selection: different does not always mean attractive. Molecular Ecology 24 (16):4286-95 link
--> Highlighted in News and views section of Molecular Ecology link
Firman RC, Young FJ , Rowe DC , Duong HT & Gasparini C (2015). Sexual rest and post-meiotic sperm ageing in house mice. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 1373-1382
Rahman MM, Gasparini C, Turchini GM, & Evans JP (2015). Testing the interactive effects of carotenoids and polyunsaturated fatty acids on ejaculate traits in the guppy Poecilia reticulata (Pisces: Poeciliidae). Journal of fish biology 86 (5), 1638-1643.
Evans JP, Rahman MM & Gasparini C (2015). Genotype-by-environment interactions underlie the expression of pre- and postcopulatory sexually selected traits in guppies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28 (4): 959
2014
Gasparini C, Kelley J & Evans JP (2014). Male sperm storage compromises sperm motility in guppies. Biology letters 10 (11), 20140681
Rahman MM, C Gasparini, GM Turchini & Evans JP (2014). Experimental reduction in dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids depresses sperm competitiveness. Biology letters 10 (9), 20140623
Rahman MM, Turchini GM, Gasparini C, Norambuena F & Evans JP (2014). The expression of pre-and postcopulatory sexually selected traits reflects levels of dietary stress in guppies. PloS one 9 (8), e105856
Fitzpatrick LJ, Gasparini C, Fitzpatrick JL & Evans JP (2014). Male–female relatedness and patterns of male reproductive investment in guppies. Biology Letters 10 (5), 20140166
Barrett LT, Evans JP & Gasparini C (2014). The effects of perceived mating opportunities on patterns of reproductive investment by male guppies. PloS ONE 9 (4), e93780
2013
Gasparini C, Dosselli R, Devigili A & Pilastro A (2013). Pattern of inbreeding depression, condition dependence and additive genetic variance in Trinidadian guppy ejaculate. Ecology and Evolution 3 (15), 4940-4953
Evans JP, Rosengrave P, Gasparini C & Gemell N (2013). Delineating the roles of males and females in sperm competition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1772): 20132047.
Gasparini C & Evans JP (2013). Ovarian fluid mediates the temporal decline in sperm viability in a fish with sperm storage. PLoS ONE 8(5): e64431.
Evans JP, van Lieshout E & Gasparini C (2013). Quantitative genetic insights into the coevolutionary dynamics of male and female genitalia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280, 20130749
Gasparini C, Serena G & Pilastro A (2013). Do unattractive friends make you look better? Context-dependent male mating preferences in the guppy. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences 280 no. 1756
Evans JP & Gasparini C (2013). The genetic basis of female multiple mating in a polyandrous livebearing fish. Ecology and Evolution 3 (1): 61-66
2012
Gasparini C, Andreatta G & A. Pilastro (2012). Ovarian fluid of receptive females enhances sperm velocity. Naturwissenschaften 99 (5): 417-420
Gasparini C, Devigili A & Pilastro A (2012). Cross–generational effects of sexual harassment on female fitness in the guppy. Evolution 66 (2): 532-543
2011
Gasparini C, Pilastro A & Evans JP (2011). Male genital morphology and its influence on female mating preferences and paternity success in guppies. PLoS ONE 6(7): e22329
Gasparini C & Pilastro A (2011). Cryptic female preference for genetically unrelated males is mediated by ovarian fluid in the guppy. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences 278: 2495-2501
Evans JP, Gasparini C, Holwell G, Ramnarine IW, Pitcher TE & Pilastro A (2011). Intraspecific evidence from guppies for correlated patterns of male and female genital trait diversification. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278: 2611-2620
Boschetto C, Gasparini C & Pilastro A (2011). Sperm number and velocity affect sperm competition success in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65 (4): 813-821
2010
Gasparini C, Simmons LW, Beveridge M & Evans JP (2010). Sperm swimming velocity predicts competitive fertilization success in the green swordtail Xiphophorus helleri. PLoS ONE 5(8): e12146
Gasparini C, Marino IAM, Boschetto C & Pilastro A (2010). Effects of male age on sperm traits and sperm competition in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23 (1): 124-135
2009
Gasparini C, Peretti A & Pilastro A (2009). Effects of mating opportunities on sperm allocation in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Biology Letters 5: 792- 794
2008
Pilastro A, Gasparini C, Boschetto C & Evans JP (2008). Colourful male guppies do not provide females with fecundity benefits. Behavioral Ecology 19(2): 374-381
2007
Pilastro A, Mandelli M, Gasparini C, Dadda M & Bisazza A (2007). Copulation duration, insemination efficiency and male attractiveness in guppies. Animal Behaviour 74: 321-328
Evans JP, Gasparini C & Pilastro A (2007). Female guppies shorten brood retention in response to predator cues. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61: 719-727
Gasparini C, Pilastro A, Evans JP. (2020) The role of female reproductive fluid in sperm competition. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B
375: 20200077. link here
Pauletto M, Cattelan S, Pilastro A, Babbucci M, Bargelloni L, Gasparini C, (2020) Molecular insights into post‐mating immune response in a fish with internal fertilization. Journal of Evolutionary Biology link
2019
Speechley EM, Gasparini C, Evans JP (2019) Female guppies increase their propensity for polyandry as an inbreeding avoidance strategy. Animal Behaviour 157, 87-93 link
C Gasparini C, Speechley EM, Polverino G (2019). The bold and the sperm: positive association between boldness and sperm number in the guppy. Royal Society open science 6 (7), 190474 link
Poli F, Immler S, Gasparini C (2019). Effects of ovarian fluid on sperm traits and its implications for cryptic female choice in zebrafish. Behavioral Ecology 30 (5), 1298–1305 link
Niemelä PT, Niehoff PP , Gasparini C, Dingemanse NJ, Tuni C (2019). Crickets become behaviourally more stable when raised under higher temperatures. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73 (6), 81 link
Gasparini C, Devigili A & Pilastro A (2019). Sexual selection and ageing: interplay between pre-and post-copulatory traits senescence in the guppy. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286(1897), 20182873. link
Polverino G, Palmas BM, Evans JP & Gasparini C (2019). Individual plasticity in alternative reproductive tactics declines with social experience in male guppies. Animal Behaviour 148, 113-121. link
2018
Gasparini C & Evans JP (2018) Female control over multiple matings increases the opportunity for postcopulatory sexual selection, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285(1888), 20181505. link
Gasparini C, Daymond E & Evans JP (2018) Extreme fertilization bias towards freshly inseminated sperm in a species exhibiting prolonged female sperm storage. Royal Society Open Science 5: 172195. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.172195 link
Devigili A, Fitzpatrick JL, Gasparini C, Ramnarine IW, Pilastro A & Evans JP (2018) Possible glimpses into early speciation: the effect of ovarian fluid on sperm velocity accords with post‐copulatory isolation between two guppy populations. Journal of evolutionary biology 31 (1), 66-74 doi:10.1111/jeb.13194 link
Gasparini C, Lu C, Dingemanse NJ & Tuni C (2018), Paternal-effects in a terrestrial ectotherm are temperature dependent but no evidence for adaptive effects. Functional Ecology 32 (4), 1011-1021. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13022 link
2017
Grueber CE, Fitzpatrick JL, Devigili A, Gasparini C, Ramnarine IW, & Evans JP (2017) Population demography and heterozygosity‐fitness correlations in natural guppy populations: an examination using sexually selected fitness traits. Molecular Ecology 26(18), 4631
JP Evans, RA Lymbery, KS Wiid, MM Rahman & Gasparini C (2017) Sperm as moderators of environmentally induced paternal effects in a livebearing fish. Biology Letters 13 (4), 20170087 link
--> Highlighted in Journal of Experimental Biology link
Gasparini C, Dosselli R & Evans JP (2017) Sperm storage by males causes changes in sperm phenotype and influences the reproductive fitness of males and their sons. Evolution Letters 1 (1): 16-25 link
Firman R, Gasparini C, Manier M & Pizzari T (2017) Postmating female control: 20 years of cryptic female choice. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32 (5): 368-382 link
--> See also: Reply to Eberhard. Cryptic Female Choice: A General Phenomenon 2017 link
2016
Tuni C, Perdigón-Ferreira J, Fritz Y, Munoz Menses A & Gasparini C (2016) Impaired sperm quality, delayed mating but no costs for offspring fitness in crickets winning a fight. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29 (8): 1643–1647 link
Cattelan S, Evans JP, Pilastro A & Gasparini C (2016) The effect of sperm production and mate availability on patterns of alternative mating tactics in the guppy Poecilia reticulata. Animal Behaviour 112: 105-110 link
2015
Gasparini C, Congiu L & Pilastro A (2015) MHC similarity and sexual selection: different does not always mean attractive. Molecular Ecology 24 (16):4286-95 link
--> Highlighted in News and views section of Molecular Ecology link
Firman RC, Young FJ , Rowe DC , Duong HT & Gasparini C (2015). Sexual rest and post-meiotic sperm ageing in house mice. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 1373-1382
Rahman MM, Gasparini C, Turchini GM, & Evans JP (2015). Testing the interactive effects of carotenoids and polyunsaturated fatty acids on ejaculate traits in the guppy Poecilia reticulata (Pisces: Poeciliidae). Journal of fish biology 86 (5), 1638-1643.
Evans JP, Rahman MM & Gasparini C (2015). Genotype-by-environment interactions underlie the expression of pre- and postcopulatory sexually selected traits in guppies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28 (4): 959
2014
Gasparini C, Kelley J & Evans JP (2014). Male sperm storage compromises sperm motility in guppies. Biology letters 10 (11), 20140681
Rahman MM, C Gasparini, GM Turchini & Evans JP (2014). Experimental reduction in dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids depresses sperm competitiveness. Biology letters 10 (9), 20140623
Rahman MM, Turchini GM, Gasparini C, Norambuena F & Evans JP (2014). The expression of pre-and postcopulatory sexually selected traits reflects levels of dietary stress in guppies. PloS one 9 (8), e105856
Fitzpatrick LJ, Gasparini C, Fitzpatrick JL & Evans JP (2014). Male–female relatedness and patterns of male reproductive investment in guppies. Biology Letters 10 (5), 20140166
Barrett LT, Evans JP & Gasparini C (2014). The effects of perceived mating opportunities on patterns of reproductive investment by male guppies. PloS ONE 9 (4), e93780
2013
Gasparini C, Dosselli R, Devigili A & Pilastro A (2013). Pattern of inbreeding depression, condition dependence and additive genetic variance in Trinidadian guppy ejaculate. Ecology and Evolution 3 (15), 4940-4953
Evans JP, Rosengrave P, Gasparini C & Gemell N (2013). Delineating the roles of males and females in sperm competition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1772): 20132047.
Gasparini C & Evans JP (2013). Ovarian fluid mediates the temporal decline in sperm viability in a fish with sperm storage. PLoS ONE 8(5): e64431.
Evans JP, van Lieshout E & Gasparini C (2013). Quantitative genetic insights into the coevolutionary dynamics of male and female genitalia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280, 20130749
Gasparini C, Serena G & Pilastro A (2013). Do unattractive friends make you look better? Context-dependent male mating preferences in the guppy. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences 280 no. 1756
Evans JP & Gasparini C (2013). The genetic basis of female multiple mating in a polyandrous livebearing fish. Ecology and Evolution 3 (1): 61-66
2012
Gasparini C, Andreatta G & A. Pilastro (2012). Ovarian fluid of receptive females enhances sperm velocity. Naturwissenschaften 99 (5): 417-420
Gasparini C, Devigili A & Pilastro A (2012). Cross–generational effects of sexual harassment on female fitness in the guppy. Evolution 66 (2): 532-543
2011
Gasparini C, Pilastro A & Evans JP (2011). Male genital morphology and its influence on female mating preferences and paternity success in guppies. PLoS ONE 6(7): e22329
Gasparini C & Pilastro A (2011). Cryptic female preference for genetically unrelated males is mediated by ovarian fluid in the guppy. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences 278: 2495-2501
Evans JP, Gasparini C, Holwell G, Ramnarine IW, Pitcher TE & Pilastro A (2011). Intraspecific evidence from guppies for correlated patterns of male and female genital trait diversification. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278: 2611-2620
Boschetto C, Gasparini C & Pilastro A (2011). Sperm number and velocity affect sperm competition success in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65 (4): 813-821
2010
Gasparini C, Simmons LW, Beveridge M & Evans JP (2010). Sperm swimming velocity predicts competitive fertilization success in the green swordtail Xiphophorus helleri. PLoS ONE 5(8): e12146
Gasparini C, Marino IAM, Boschetto C & Pilastro A (2010). Effects of male age on sperm traits and sperm competition in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23 (1): 124-135
2009
Gasparini C, Peretti A & Pilastro A (2009). Effects of mating opportunities on sperm allocation in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Biology Letters 5: 792- 794
2008
Pilastro A, Gasparini C, Boschetto C & Evans JP (2008). Colourful male guppies do not provide females with fecundity benefits. Behavioral Ecology 19(2): 374-381
2007
Pilastro A, Mandelli M, Gasparini C, Dadda M & Bisazza A (2007). Copulation duration, insemination efficiency and male attractiveness in guppies. Animal Behaviour 74: 321-328
Evans JP, Gasparini C & Pilastro A (2007). Female guppies shorten brood retention in response to predator cues. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61: 719-727
