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Precious Essences: Female Secretions Promote Sperm Storage in Drosophila

Sperm that females receive during mating are stored in special places in the females' reproductive tracts. These storage sites serve to support and retain the sperm, maintaining the sperms' motility and, in mammals, permitting final sperm-maturation. The molecules that attract sperm to the...

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Autor principal: Wolfner, Mariana F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3210743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22087072
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001191