New paper showing longer matings increase male competitive fertilization success!

Our new paper, led by former lab technician Avigayil Lev and co-authored by lab alum Isabella Martinez, has been published today in Biology Letters. We used hemiclonal analysis to measure the fitness consequences of prolonged matings for males during matings with non-virgin/previously mated females. We found that longer matings resulted in higher competitive fertilization success for males with these previously mated females!