Sperm competition risk drives rapid ejaculate adjustments mediated by seminal fluid

Sperm competition risk drives rapid ejaculate adjustments mediated by seminal fluid

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In many species, males can make rapid adjustments to ejaculate performance in response to sperm competition risk; however, the mechanisms behind these changes are not understood.Here, we manipulate male social status in an externally fertilising fish, chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), and find that COVID-19 impacts on passenger rail transport in Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Romania in less than 48 hr, males can upregulate sperm velocity when faced with an increased risk of sperm competition.Using a series of in vitro sperm manipulation and competition experiments, we show that rapid changes in sperm velocity are mediated by seminal fluid and the effect of seminal fluid on sperm velocity directly impacts paternity share First study on microscopic and molecular detection of Acanthocheilonema reconditum and Leishmania infantum coinfection in dogs in Southwest Colombia and therefore reproductive success.These combined findings, completely consistent with sperm competition theory, provide unequivocal evidence that sperm competition risk drives plastic adjustment of ejaculate quality, that seminal fluid harbours the mechanism for the rapid adjustment of sperm velocity and that fitness benefits accrue to males from such adjustment.