Transcriptome profiling of the spermatheca identifies genes potentially involved in the long-term sperm storage of ant queens

Females of social Hymenoptera only mate at the beginning of their adult lives and produce offspring until their death. In most ant species, queens live for over a decade, indicating that ant queens can store large numbers of spermatozoa throughout their long lives. To reveal the prolonged sperm stor...

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Autores principales: Gotoh, Ayako, Shigenobu, Shuji, Yamaguchi, Katsushi, Kobayashi, Satoru, Ito, Fuminori, Tsuji, Kazuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5519678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28729606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05818-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5519678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28729606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05818-8

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