What is sperm storage!? TREE paper accepted. AND we had a letter in response that got us thinking! See our reply online!!

July 2015**Update: our paper is out and we have engaged in a discussion with Marques, Garcia, and Ames.  See their letter here and ours here!

Exciting news is that my favorite journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution lovingly known as just 'TREE' by many just accepted my paper written with my postdoc adviser about sperm storage and how it is defined!
Look for it in May (online at least).  Keep your eyes here and it should show up...

While you wait the main take home messages:

• Sperm storage is ubiquitous in internal fertilizing animals.
• To understand the evolution of sperm storage we must study adaptations that result from selection on males separate from those that result from selection on females.
• Adaptations for sperm storage in males can facilitate sperm storage inside the females.
• Careful consideration of different criteria to demonstrate sperm storage will allow for more comparative studies.
• We suggest a sperm storage index that will inform such evolutionary studies.
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