Sperm – microbe interactions

Supervisors: Klaus Reinhardt, Barbara Eckel

Background: Sperm are the fastest evolving cell type. Researchers believe they evolve in response to female characters. We do, too, but we find it more interesting to ask: Do sexually transmitted microbes shape the evolution of sperm function?

References:

Lockhart et al. 1996. Biol. Reviews 71:415-471.

Reinhardt et al. 2016. Annual Rev Ecol. Evol. Syst. 46:435-459.