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Here, we explore the costs and benefits of long sperm and\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">SR</jats:styled-content>\n                    genotypes, both in the sex that carries them and in the sex that does not. We measured male and female fitness in inbred lines of\n                    <jats:italic>Drosophila melanogaster</jats:italic>\n                    derived from four populations previously selected for long sperm, short sperm, long\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">SR</jats:styled-content>\n                    s or short\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">SR</jats:styled-content>\n                    s. We specifically asked: What are the costs and benefits of long sperm in males and long\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">SR</jats:styled-content>\n                    s in females? Furthermore, do genotypes that generate long sperm in males or long\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">SR</jats:styled-content>\n                    s in females impose a fitness cost on the opposite sex? Answers to these questions will address whether long sperm are an honest indicator of male fitness, male post‐copulatory success is associated with male precopulatory success, female choice benefits females or is costly, and intragenomic conflict could influence evolution of these traits. We found that both sexes have increased longevity in long sperm and long\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">SR</jats:styled-content>\n                    genotypes. Males, but not females, from long\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">SR</jats:styled-content>\n                    lines had higher fecundity. Our results suggest that sperm–\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">SR</jats:styled-content>\n                    coevolution is facilitated by both increased viability and indirect benefits of long sperm and\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">SR</jats:styled-content>\n                    s in both sexes.\n                  </jats:p>","journal":"Journal of Evolutionary Biology","year":2019,"id":15419,"datarank":0.4092186750172665,"base_score":2.302585092994046,"endowment":2.302585092994046,"self_citation_contribution":0.3453877639491069,"citation_network_contribution":0.0638309110681596,"self_endowment_contribution":0.3453877639491069,"citer_contribution":0.0638309110681596,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":9,"citer_count":6,"citers_with_citation_signal":5,"citers_with_endowment":5,"datacite_reuse_total":1,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":117721,"name":"Felix Zajitschek","orcid":"0000-0001-6010-6112","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":117722,"name":"Sarah Josway","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":117725,"name":"Reem Al Shabeeb","orcid":"0000-0001-7576-9680","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":117727,"name":"Halli Weiner","orcid":"0000-0001-8732-4064","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":117728,"name":"Mollie K. 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