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First insights into female sperm storage duration in tardigrades

Female sperm storage is ubiquitous in the animal kingdom and it has been shown to be linked to several evolutionary processes, from postcopulatory sexual selection to dispersal. Here we report, for the first time, long‐term sperm storage in females of the tardigrade Macrobiotus polonicus. Females, i...

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Autores principales: Vecchi, Matteo, Chartrain, Justine, Puro, Simo, Tynkkynen, Riikka, Vuori, Tommi, Michalczyk, Łukasz, Calhim, Sara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9201749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35784050
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9010