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Scott Pitnick
BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
Pitnick S, Hosken DJ. (eds.) 2022. Sperm Biology II: The Evolutionary Biology of Reproduction. Academic Press, London. In preparation.
Pitnick, S. and D. J. Hosken. 2010. Postcopulatory sexual selection. In: Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology (D. F. Westneat and C. W. Fox, eds.), Pp. 379-399. Oxford University Press, New York Buy on Amazon
Birkhead, T. R., D. J. Hosken and S. Pitnick (eds.) 2009. Sperm Biology: An Evolutionary Perspective. Academic Press, London Buy on Amazon
Pitnick, S., M. F. Wolfner and S. S. Suarez. 2009. Ejaculate-female and sperm-female interactions. In: Sperm Biology: An Evolutionary Perspective (T.R. Birkhead, D.J. Hosken and S. Pitnick, eds.), Pp. 247-304. Academic Press, LondonPitnick, S., D. J. Hosken and T. R. Birkhead. 2009. Sperm morphological diversity. In: Sperm Biology: An Evolutionary Perspective (T.R. Birkhead, D.J. Hosken and S. Pitnick, eds.), Pp. 69-149. Academic Press, LondonREFEREED JOURNALS
McCullough E, Whittington E, Singh A, Wolfner MF, Pitnick S, Dorus S. 2022. The life history of sperm depends on molecular continuity between male and female reproductive tracts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 119: e2119899119
McDonough-Goldstein CE, Pitnick S, Dorus S. 2022. Drosophila female reproductive glands contribute to mating plug composition and the timing of sperm ejection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289: 20212213Syed ZA, Dallai R, Nasirzadeh N, Brill JA, O’Grady PM, Cong S, Leef E, Rice S, Asif A, Nguyen S, Hansen M, Dorus S, Pitnick S. 2021. Sperm cyst “looping:” a developmental novelty that enabled extreme male ornament evolution. Cells 10: 2762McDonough-Goldstein CE, Whittington E, McCullough EL, Buel, SM, Erdman S, Pitnick S, Dorus S. 2021. Pronounced postmating response in the Drosophila female reproductive tract fluid proteome. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics 20: 100156McDonough-Goldstein CE, Borziak K, Pitnick S, Dorus S. 2021. Drosophila female reproductive tract expression reveals coordinated mating responses and rapidly evolving tissue-specific genes. G3 11(3): jkab020McDonough-Goldstein CE, Pitnick S, Dorus S. 2021. Female mating status influences protein composition of mature Drosophila oocytes. Scientific Reports 11: 3142Lüpold S, Reil B, Manier MK, Zeender V, Belote JM, Pitnick S. 2020. How female × male and male × male interactions influence competitive fertilization in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution Letters 4-5: 416-429McCullough EL, McDonough CE, Pitnick S, Dorus S. 2020. Quantitative proteomics reveals rapid divergence in the postmating response of female reproductive tracts among sibling species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287: 20201030Pitnick SS, Wolfner MF, Dorus S. 2020. PEMS: post-ejaculatory modifications to sperm. Biological Reviews 95: 365-392Lüpold S, Pitnick S. 2018. Sperm form and function: what do we know about the role of sexual selection? Reproduction 155: R229-R243Rohner PT, Pitnick S, Blanckenhorn WU, Snook RR, Bächli G, Lüpold S. 2018. Global macroecology of size, sexual size dimorphism, dispersal and range size in fruit flies (Diptera: Drosophilidae). Ecography 41: 1-11Gress, B. E. and S. Pitnick. 2017. Size-dependent ejaculation strategies and reproductive success in the yellow dung fly, Scathophaga stercoraria. Animal Behaviour 127: 281-287Droge-Young, E. M., J. M. Belote, G. S. Perez and S. Pitnick. 2016. Mating system influences on the mechanisms of postcopulatory sexual selection. Journal of Insect Physiology 93-94: 1-10Lüpold, S., M. K. Manier, N. Puniamoorthy, C. Schoff, W. T. Starmer, S. H. Buckley Luepold, J. M. Belote and S. Pitnick. 2016. How sexual selection can drive the evolution of costly sperm ornamentation. Nature 533: 535-538|Droge-Young, E. M., J. M. Belote, A. Eeswara and S. Pitnick. 2016. Extreme ecology and an extreme mating system: discrimination among alternative direct benefits models for the evolution of polyandry in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Behavioral Ecology 27: 575-583Gress, B. E., W. T. Starmer, M. A. Virgen, A. Agu1, K. A. Attila1, E. E. Bazluke1, L. A. Chubb1, A. G. Durantini1, J. Goldsmith1, B. M. Hui1, M. Karimova1, E. S. Macey1, M. R. Macri1, E. N. Mongeon1, N. J. Monka1, J. M. Pence1, S. T. Perdomo1, J. M. Pratt1, D. E. Ruda1, J. B. Szkodzinski1, N. A. Williamson1 and S. Pitnick. 2016. Stepping off the pasture: evidence of widespread alternative male mating tactics in the yellow dung fly. Behaviour 153: 143-157 (1students in 2014 Syracuse University Bio 417 course)McDonough, C., E. Whittington, S. Pitnick and S. Dorus. 2016. Male and female reproductive system proteomics: elucidating the molecular basis of postmating/ prezygotic reproductive barriers. Journal of Proteomics 135: 26-37Higginson, D. M., A. V. Badyaev, K. A. Segraves and S. Pitnick. 2015. Causes of discordance between allometries at and above species level: an example with aquatic beetles. The American Naturalist 186: 176-186Pitnick, S. and D. W. Pfennig. 2014. Brotherly love benefits females. Nature 505: 626-627 (News & Views)Ala-Honkola, O., M. K. Manier, S. Lüpold, E. M. Droge-Young, K. S. Berben, W. F. Collins, J. M. Belote and S. Pitnick. 2014. No inbreeding depression in sperm storage ability or offspring viability in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Insect Physiology 60: 1-6Gress, B., R. J. Waltzer, S. Lüpold, E. Droge-Young, M. K. Manier, and S. Pitnick. 2014. Alternative mating tactics in the yellow dung fly: resolving mechanisms of small-male advantage off pasture. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281: 20132164Manier, M. K., S. Lüpold, J. M. Belote, W. T. Starmer, K. S. Berben, O. Ala-Honkola, W. F. Collins and S. Pitnick. 2013. Postcopulatory sexual selection generates speciation phenotypes in Drosophila. Current Biology 23: 1853-1862
|Manier, M. K. S. Lüpold, S. Pitnick and W. T. Starmer. 2013. A theoretical framework for determining the fertilization set and investigating fertilization bias from multiple sperm-storage organs. The American Naturalist 182: 552-561.Manier, M. K., J. M. Belote, K. S. Berben, S. Lüpold, O. Ala-Honkola, W. F. Collins and S. Pitnick. 2013. Rapid diversification of sperm precedence traits and processes among three sibling Drosophila species. Evolution 67-8: 2348-2362
Ala-Honkola, O., D. J. Hosken, M. K. Manier, S. Lüpold, E. M. Droge-Young, K. S. Berben, W. F. Collins, J. M. Belote and S. Pitnick. 2013. Inbreeding reveals mode of past selection on male reproductive characters in Drosophila melanogaster. Ecology & Evolution 3: 2089-2102
Belote, J. M., Lüpold, S., Manier, M. K. and S. Pitnick. 2013. Opening a window onto sperm competition. Molecular Reproduction and Development 80: 79 (“VISIONS: the art of science” contribution)Lüpold, S., S. Pitnick, K. S. Berben, C. Blengini, J. M. Belote and M. K. Manier. 2013. Female mediation of competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110: 10693-10698Lüpold, S., M. K. Manier, K. S. Berben, K. J. Smith, B. D. Daley, S. H. Buckley, J. M. Belote and S. Pitnick. 2012. How multivariate ejaculate traits determine competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster. Current Biology 22: 1667-1672Droge-Young, E., M. K. Manier, J. M. Belote and S. Pitnick. 2012. Covariance among premating, postcopulatory and viability fitness components in Drosophila melanogaster and their influence on paternity measurement. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 1555-1563Higginson, D. M., K. B. Miller, K. A. Segraves and S. Pitnick. 2012. Convergence, recurrence and diversification of complex sperm traits. Evolution 66-5: 1650-1661
Higginson, D. M., K. B. Miller, K. A. Segraves and S. Pitnick. 2012. Female reproductive tract form drives the evolution of complex sperm morphology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 109: 4538-4543
|Ala-Honkola, O., M. K. Manier, S. Lüpold and S. Pitnick. 2011. No evidence for postcopulatory inbreeding avoidance in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 65: 2699-2705Immler, S., S. Pitnick, G. A. Parker, S. Lüpold, K. Durrant, S. Calhim and T. R. Birkhead. 2011. Resolving variation in reproductive trade-offs: sperm production in birds and flies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 108: 5325-5330Lüpold, S, M. K. Manier, O. Ala-Honkola, J. M. Belote and S. Pitnick. 2011. Male Drosophila melanogaster adjust ejaculate size based on female mating status, fecundity and age. Behavioral Ecology 22: 184-191Higginson, D. M. and S. Pitnick. 2011. Intra-ejaculate sperm interactions: do sperm cooperate? Biological Reviews 87: 249-270Manier, M. K., J. M. Belote, K. S. Berben, D. Novikov, W. T. Stuart and S. Pitnick. 2010. Resolving mechanisms of competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster. Science 328: 354-357
|Parker, G. A., S. Immler, S. Pitnick and T. R. Birkhead. 2010. Sperm competition games: sperm size (mass) and number under raffle and displacement, and the evolution of P2. Journal of Theoretical Biology 264: 1003-1023Pitnick, S., K. R. H. Henn, S. Maheux, D. M. Higginson, J. L. Hurtado-Gonzales, M. K. Manier, K. Berben, C. Guptill and J. A. C. Uy. 2009. Size-dependent alternative male mating tactics in the yellow dung fly, Scathophaga stercoraria. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276: 3229-3237Pitnick, S., R. Dobler and D. J. Hosken. 2009. Sperm length is not influenced by haploid gene expression in the flies Drosophila melanogaster and Scathophaga stercoraria. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276: 4029-4034Amitin, E. G. and S. Pitnick. 2007. Influence of developmental environment on male- and female-mediated sperm precedence in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 381-391Blanckenhorn, W. U., Dixon, A. F. G., Fairbairn D. J., Gilbert, P., van der Linde, K., Meier, R., Nylin, S., Pitnick, S., Schoff, C., Signorelli, M. and C. Wiklund. 2007. Proximate causes of Rensch’s rule: Does sexual size dimorphism in arthropods result from sex differences in development time? The American Naturalist 169: 245-257Bjork, A., W. T. Starmer, D. M. Higginson, C. J. Rhodes and S. Pitnick. 2007. Complex interactions with females and rival males limit the evolution of sperm offense and defense. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274: 1779-1788Bjork, A., R. Dallai and S. Pitnick. 2007. Adaptive modulation of sperm production rate in Drosophila bifurca, a species with giant sperm. Biology Letters 3: 517-519Bjork, A. and S. Pitnick. 2006. Intensity of sexual selection along the anisogamy-isogamy continuum. Nature 441: 742-745
|Pattarini, J. M., W. T. Starmer, A. Bjork and S. Pitnick. 2006. Mechanisms underlying the sperm quality advantage in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 60: 2064-2080Pitnick, S., Jones, K. and G. Wilkinson. 2006. Sperm competition and brain size in bats. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273: 719-724Pizzari, T., T. R. Birkhead, M. W. Blows, R. Brooks, K. L. Buchanan, T. H. Clutton-Brock, P. Harvey, D. J. Hosken, M. D. Jennions, H. Kokko, J. S. Kotiaho, C. M. Lessells, C. Macias-García, A. J. Moore, G. A. Parker, S. Pitnick, J. Radwan, M. Ritchie, B. C. Sheldon, L. W. Simmons, R. R. Snook, P. Stockley, M. Zuk. 2006. Reproductive behavior: Sexual selection remains the best explanation. Science 312: 690 (Letter)Lessells, C. M., A. T. D. Bennett, T. R. Birkhead, N. Colegrave, S. R. X. Dall, P. Harvey, B. Hatchwell, D. J. Hosken, J. Hunt, A. J. Moore, G. A. Parker, S. Pitnick, T. Pizzari, J. Radwan, M. Ritchie, B. C. Sheldon, D. Shuker, L. W. Simmons, P. Stockley, T. Tregenza, M. Zuk. 2006. Nothing new under the sun: Social selection is part of sexual selection theory. Science 312: 689-690.Brown, W. D., Bjork, A., Schneider, K. and S. Pitnick. 2004. No evidence that polyandry benefits females in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 58: 1242-1250Starmer, W. T., Polak, M., Barker, J. S. F., McEvey, S., Pitnick, S. and L. L. Wolf. 2003. Phylogenetic, geographic, and temporal analysis of female reproductive trade-offs in Drosophila. Evolutionary Biology 33: 139-171Miller, G. T. and S. Pitnick. 2003. Functional significance of seminal receptacle length in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16: 114-126Miller, G. T., Starmer, W. T. and S. Pitnick. 2003. Quantitative genetic analysis of among-population variation in sperm and female sperm-storage organ length in Drosophila mojavensis. Genetical Research 81: 213-220Pitnick, S., Miller, G. T., Schneider, K. and T. A. Markow. 2003. Ejaculate-female coevolution in Drosophila mojavensis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 270: 1507-1512Morrow, E. H., G. Arnqvist, and S. Pitnick. 2003. Adaptation versus pleiotropy: Why do males harm their mates? Behavioral Ecology 14: 802-806Hosken, D. J. and S. Pitnick. 2003. Do queens select sperm? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18: 107 (Comment)Miller, G. T. and S. Pitnick. 2002. Sperm-female coevolution in Drosophila. Science 298: 1230-1233
|Pitnick, S. and F. García-González. 2002. Harm to females increases with male body size in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 269: 1821-1828Pitnick, S., Brown, W. D. and G. T. Miller. 2001. Evolution of female remating behaviour following experimental removal of sexual selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 268: 557-563Pitnick, S., Miller, G. T., Reagan, J. and B. Holland. 2001. Males’ evolutionary responses to experimental removal of sexual selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 268: 1071-1080
|Miller, G. T., Starmer, W. T. and S. Pitnick. 2001. Quantitative genetic analysis of the size of the primary sperm-storage organ in Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity 86: 25-32Pitnick, S., and G. T. Miller. 2000. Correlated response in reproductive and life history traits to selection on testis length in Drosophila hydei. Heredity 84: 416-426Pitnick, S., and W. D. Brown. 2000. Criteria for demonstrating female sperm choice. Evolution 54: 1052-1056Pitnick, S., T. A. Markow, and G. S. Spicer. 1999. Evolution of multiple kinds of female sperm-storage organs in Drosophila. Evolution 53: 1804-1822Karr, T. L., and S. Pitnick. 1999. Sperm competition: Defining the rules of engagement. Current Biology 9: 787-790 (Dispatch)Pitnick, S., and T. L. Karr. 1998. Paternal products and by-products in Drosophila development. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 265: 821-826Pitnick, S., Spicer, G. S., and T. A. Markow. 1997. Phylogenetic examination of male ejaculatory donations in Drosophila. Evolution 51: 833-845Pitnick, S. 1996. Investment in testes and the cost of making long sperm in Drosophila. The American Naturalist 148: 57-80Spicer, G. S., and S. Pitnick. 1996. Molecular systematics of the Drosophila hydei subgroup as inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Journal of Molecular Evolution 43: 281-286.Markow, T. A., Bustoz, D., and S. Pitnick. 1996. Sexual selection and a secondary sexual character in two Drosophila species. Animal Behaviour 52: 759-766Pitnick, S., and T. L. Karr. 1996. Sperm caucus. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11: 148-151 (Conference Report)Karr, T. L., and S. Pitnick. 1996. The ins and outs of fertilization. Nature 379: 405-406Pitnick, S., Spicer, G. S., and T. A. Markow. 1995. How long is a giant sperm? Nature 375: 109Pitnick, S., Markow, T. A., and G. S. Spicer. 1995. Delayed male maturity is a cost of producing large sperm in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 92: 10614-10618Pitnick, S., and T. A. Markow. 1994. Large-male advantages associated with costs of sperm production in Drosophila hydei, a species with giant sperm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 91: 9277-9281Pitnick, S., and T. A. Markow. 1994. Male gametic strategies: Sperm size, testes size, and the allocation of ejaculate among successive mates by the sperm-limited fly Drosophila pachea and its relatives. The American Naturalist 143: 785-819Pitnick, S., and W. B. Heed. 1994. New species of cactus breeding Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae) from Mexico. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 87: 307-310Pitnick, S. 1993. Operational sex ratios and sperm limitation in populations of Drosophila pachea. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 33: 383-391Pitnick, S. 1991. Male size influences mate fecundity and remating interval in Drosophila melanogaster. Animal Behaviour 41: 735-745Pitnick, S., Markow, T. A., and M. F. Riedy. 1991. Transfer of ejaculate and incorporation of male-derived substances by females in the nannoptera species group (Diptera: Drosophilidae). Evolution 45: 774-780
