In some {cases\species} the female has become able to do without the male altogether which makes all the offspring clones, independence in mating at the expense of loss of (most) variability. One wonders if another mechanism of sharing DNA would evolve given sufficient time: virus?
Very nice idea! It would have to a virus that only infected gametes, though, as it wouldn't be very effective to attempt to infect all your I-dont-know-how-many trillion cells.