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Destination of apyrene sperm following migration from the bursa copulatrix in the monandrous swallowtail butterfly Byasa alcinous

Most male lepidopterans produce fertile eupyrene sperm and non-fertile apyrene sperm, both of which are transferred to the female in a spermatophore during mating. Apyrene sperm outnumbers eupyrene sperm and both sperm types migrate from the bursa copulatrix to the spermatheca after mating. While eu...

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Autores principales: Konagaya, Tatsuro, Idogawa, Naoto, Watanabe, Mamoru
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7708454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33262380
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77683-x