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Mitochondria-driven cell elongation mechanism for competing sperms

Sexual competition has selected a number of extreme phenotypes like the tail ornament of peacock male. Sperm tail of Drosophilidae elongate up to 6 cm as a result of evolutionary selection for reproductive fitness among competing sperms. Sperm elongation takes place post meiotically and can proceed...

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Autores principales: Noguchi, Tatsuhiko, Koizumi, Michiko, Hayashi, Shigeo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Landes Bioscience 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3397921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22634483
http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/fly.19862