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Overview

Tommaso Pizzari is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Their work includes significant contributions to subfields such as Genetics, Reproductive Medicine, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their main research topics cover Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Plant and Animal Studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, Sperm and Testicular Function, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences.

Pizzari's recent publications illustrate the breadth of their research interests and include:

  • "The Reproductive Microbiome: An Emerging Driver of Sexual Selection, Sexual Conflict, Mating Systems, and Reproductive Isolation" (2020) published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Sexual selection and personality: Individual and group-level effects on mating behaviour in red junglefowl" (2021) published in Journal of Animal Ecology
  • "Meta-analysis shows no consistent evidence for senescence in ejaculate traits across animals" (2024) published in Nature Communications
  • "Temporal dynamics of competitive fertilization in social groups of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) shed new light on avian sperm competition" (2020) published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "The Reproductive Microbiome: An Emerging Driver of Sexual Selection, Sexual Conflict, Mating Systems, and Reproductive Isolation" (2020) published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Their frequent coauthors demonstrate collaboration across multiple lines of investigation and include:

  • Krish Sanghvi
  • Irem Sepil
  • Samuel J. L. Gascoigne
  • Regina Vega-Trejo
  • Grant C. McDonald

Pizzari publishes predominantly in venues that specialize in ecology, evolution, and biological sciences. The most recurrent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Evolution Letters

Their work contributes to advancing knowledge in topics related to sexual selection, mating systems, and reproductive isolation, using both theoretical and empirical approaches across multiple species. The combination of ecology, evolutionary biology, genetics, and reproductive medicine underscores a multidisciplinary methodology in their research portfolio.

Best Publications

  • Postcopulatory sexual selection.

    Timothy R. Birkhead;Tommaso Pizzari

  • Sperm competition and ejaculate economics.

    Geoff A. Parker;Tommaso Pizzari

  • Female feral fowl eject sperm of subdominant males

    T. Pizzari;T. R. Birkhead

  • Postmating Female Control: 20 Years of Cryptic Female Choice

    Renée C. Firman;Clelia Gasparini;Mollie K. Manier;Tommaso Pizzari

  • Sophisticated sperm allocation in male fowl

    Tommaso Pizzari;Tommaso Pizzari;Charles K. Cornwallis;Hanne Løvlie;Sven Jakobsson

  • 6 – Sperm competition and sperm phenotype

    Tommaso Pizzari;Geoff A. Parker

  • The evolutionary ecology of pre- and post-meiotic sperm senescence.

    Tom Pizzari;Rebecca Dean;Allan Pacey;Harry Moore

  • Sperm mobility: mechanisms of fertilizing efficiency, genetic variation and phenotypic relationship with male status in the domestic fowl, Gallus gallus domesticus

    David P Froman;Tommaso Pizzari;Allen J Feltmann;Hector Castillo-Juarez

  • Perspective: sexual conflict and sexual selection: chasing away paradigm shifts.

    Tommaso Pizzari;Rhonda R. Snook

  • Cryptic female choice favours sperm from major histocompatibility complex-dissimilar males.

    Hanne Løvlie;Mark A. F. Gillingham;Kirsty Worley;Kirsty Worley;Tommaso Pizzari

  • The Reproductive Microbiome: An Emerging Driver of Sexual Selection, Sexual Conflict, Mating Systems, and Reproductive Isolation.

    Melissah Rowe;Melissah Rowe;Liisa Veerus;Pål Trosvik;Angus Buckling

  • The polyandry revolution

    Tommaso Pizzari;Nina Wedell

  • Sex-specific, counteracting responses to inbreeding in a bird

    Tommaso Pizzari;Hanne Løvlie;Charles K. Cornwallis

  • The sexually-selected sperm hypothesis: sex-biased inheritance and sexual antagonism.

    T. Pizzari;T. R. Birkhead

  • Chicken genomics: feather-pecking and victim pigmentation.

    Linda Keeling;Leif Andersson;Leif Andersson;Karin E. Schütz;Karin E. Schütz;Susanne Kerje;Susanne Kerje

  • Divergent allocation of sperm and the seminal proteome along a competition gradient in Drosophila melanogaster.

    B R Hopkins;I Sepil;Thézénas M-L.;J F Craig

  • MHC heterozygosity and survival in red junglefowl

    Kirsty Worley;Julie Collet;Lewis G. Spurgin;Charlie Cornwallis

  • Social competitiveness associated with rapid fluctuations in sperm quality in male fowl.

    Tommaso Pizzari;Charles K Cornwallis;David P Froman

  • Sexual selection and the differential effect of polyandry

    Julie Collet;David S. Richardson;Kirsty Worley;Tommaso Pizzari

  • Sperm competition dynamics: ejaculate fertilising efficiency changes differentially with time

    Tommaso Pizzari;Kirsty Worley;Kirsty Worley;Terry Burke;David P Froman

  • Sperm sociality: cooperation, altruism, and spite.

    Tommaso Pizzari;Kevin R Foster

Frequent Co-Authors

David C. Richardson
David C. Richardson Duke University
Tim R. Birkhead
Tim R. Birkhead University of Sheffield
Per Jensen
Per Jensen Linköping University
Geoff A. Parker
Geoff A. Parker University of Liverpool
Leif Andersson
Leif Andersson Texas A&M University
Rhonda R. Snook
Rhonda R. Snook Stockholm University
Angus Buckling
Angus Buckling University of Exeter
Terry Burke
Terry Burke University of Sheffield
Allen J. Moore
Allen J. Moore University of Georgia

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