Evidence for sperm limitation in the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus

By A. Hines, Paul R. Jivoff, P. Bushmann, J. Montfrans, S. Reed, D. L. Wolcott, T. G. Wolcott. 2003

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ABUNDANCE AND EXPLOITATION RATE OF THE BLUE CRAB (CALLINECTES SAPIDUS ) IN CHESAPEAKE BAY (2003, background): “Recent studies by Hines et al. (2003) demonstrated that a decline in the abundance of male blue crabs, especially large males, may result in a deficit of sperm transferred to females during copulation.”
Unnatural selection: Effects of a male-focused size-selective fishery on reproductive potential of a blue crab population (2005, background): “Reducing the number and size of males in the population may result in sperm limitation, in which the quantity or quality of sperm provided by the male is insufficient to fertilize the potential lifetime egg production of the female (Hines et al., 2003).”
Dangerously few liaisons: a review of mate-finding Allee effects (2009, background): “…argus) and New Zealand rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii), for example, are frequently sperm-limited because fisheries have reduced the abundance of large males, reducing mate choice and reproductive output of individual females (MacDiarmid and Butler 1999; Hines et al. 2003; Carver et al. 2005).”
Lifetime reproductive potential of female blue crabs Callinectes sapidus in North Carolina, USA (2009, methodology): “Previous estimates of blue crab mature lifespans range from 1 to 4 yr (Chesapeake: Churchill 1919, Van Engel 1958; Florida: Tagatz 1968; NC: Judy & Dudley 1970).”
Do males matter? The role of males in population dynamics (2007, background): “…Vlad 1989), thus it is remarkable how we lack studies that relate population-wide sex ratios and population densities to reproductive output (most such studies are concerned with detecting sperm limitation, Danthanarayana and Gu 1991, Hines et al. 2003, Milner-Gulland et al. 2003, Levitan 2004).”
A hypothesis about the origin of sperm storage in the Eubrachyura, the effects of seminal receptacle structure on mating strategies and the evolution of crab diversity: How did a race to be first become a race to be last? (2011, background): “There is unfortunately no clear idea of what constitutes a “sufficient” sperm supply for an exploited crab stock of any species and even less about what the critical value of the sperm/egg ratio might be (Hines et al., 2003).”
Evolutionary ecology of social and sexual systems : crustaceans as model organisms (2007, background): “This product may reach up to 54 3 106 eggs, partitioned among 18 spawns, in the blue crab (Hines et al. 2003).”