↓ Skip to main content

Genes Regulated by Mating, Sperm, or Seminal Proteins in Mated Female Drosophila melanogaster

Overview of attention for article published in Current Biology, August 2004
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
twitter
1 X user
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages

Citations

dimensions_citation
285 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
190 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Title
Genes Regulated by Mating, Sperm, or Seminal Proteins in Mated Female Drosophila melanogaster
Published in
Current Biology, August 2004
DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2004.08.028
Pubmed ID
Authors

Lisa A. McGraw, Greg Gibson, Andrew G. Clark, Mariana F. Wolfner

Abstract

In Drosophila melanogaster, sperm and accessory gland proteins ("Acps," a major component of seminal fluid) transferred by males during mating trigger many physiological and behavioral changes in females (reviewed in ). Determining the genetic changes triggered in females by male-derived molecules and cells is a crucial first step in understanding female responses to mating and the female's role in postcopulatory processes such as sperm competition, cryptic female choice, and sexually antagonistic coevolution. We used oligonucleotide microarrays to compare gene expression in D. melanogaster females that were either virgin, mated to normal males, mated to males lacking sperm, or mated to males lacking both sperm and Acps. Expression of up to 1783 genes changed as a result of mating, most less than 2-fold. Of these, 549 genes were regulated by the receipt of sperm and 160 as a result of Acps that females received from their mates. The remaining genes whose expression levels changed were modulated by nonsperm/non-Acp aspects of mating. The mating-dependent genes that we have identified contribute to many biological processes including metabolism, immune defense, and protein modification.

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profile of 1 X user who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 190 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 8 4%
United Kingdom 5 3%
Germany 2 1%
Spain 2 1%
Egypt 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
Unknown 169 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 56 29%
Researcher 49 26%
Professor > Associate Professor 16 8%
Student > Bachelor 14 7%
Student > Master 12 6%
Other 24 13%
Unknown 19 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 129 68%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 25 13%
Environmental Science 5 3%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 2%
Neuroscience 2 1%
Other 4 2%
Unknown 22 12%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 April 2019.
All research outputs
#2,575,473
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Current Biology
#5,363
of 14,676 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,714
of 61,346 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Current Biology
#9
of 81 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,374,917 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 14,676 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 61.9. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 63% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 61,346 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 81 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.