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Oh, the places they’ll go: Female sperm storage and sperm precedence in Drosophila melanogaster

Among most animals with internal fertilization, females store sperm in specific regions of their reproductive tract for later use. Sperm storage enables prolonged fertility, physical and temporal separation of mating from fertilization and, when females mate with multiple males, opportunities for di...

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Main Authors: Schnakenberg, Sandra L., Siegal, Mark L., Bloch Qazi, Margaret C.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Landes Bioscience 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3469444/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23087839
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4161/spmg.21655
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