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Severe Fertility Effects of sheepish Sperm Caused by Failure To Enter Female Sperm Storage Organs in Drosophila melanogaster

In Drosophila, mature sperm are transferred from males to females during copulation, stored in the sperm storage organs of females, and then utilized for fertilization. Here, we report a gene named sheepish (shps) of Drosophila melanogaster that is essential for sperm storage in females. shps mutant...

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Autores principales: Tomaru, Masatoshi, Ohsako, Takashi, Watanabe, Masahide, Juni, Naoto, Matsubayashi, Hiroshi, Sato, Hiromi, Takahashi, Ayako, Yamamoto, Masa-Toshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Genetics Society of America 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5765343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29158336
http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/g3.117.300171