Clelia Gasparini
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Clelia Gasparini
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2023

Pinzoni L, Locatello L, Gasparini C,  Rasotto MB. (2023). Female reproductive fluid and male seminal fluid: a non-gametic conflict for post-mating control. Biol Lett 19(9), 20230306.

Cattelan C, Devigili A, Santacà M, Gasparini C (2023). ​Female reproductive fluid attracts more and better sperm: implications for within-ejaculate cryptic female choice. Biol Lett 76 link here

Pinzoni L, Locatello L, Gasparini C, Rasotto MB (2023). Female reproductive fluid concentrations affect sperm performance of alternative male phenotypes in an external fertilizer. J EvolBiol 36, 1198 - 1207 link here

Breedveld MC, Devigili A., Borgheresi O, Gasparini C (2023). Reproducing in hot water: Experimental heatwaves deteriorate multiple reproductive traits in a freshwater ectotherm. Fun Ecol 37, 989– 1004 link here

Pinzoni L, Poli F, Grapputo A, Rasotto MB, Gasparini C (2023). Female reproductive fluid increases the opportunities for post-mating sexual selection by prolonging egg fertilization window. Am Nat 201(3) link here

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
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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. link here
 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 ​link here

 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

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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
 




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