• Female insects are able to make eggs, receive and store sperm, manipulate sperm from different males, and lay eggs. Their reproductive systems are made...
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  • The reproductive system of an organism, also known as the genital system, is the biological system made up of all the anatomical organs involved in sexual...
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    The insect nervous system consists of a brain and a ventral nerve cord. Most insects reproduce by laying eggs. Insects breathe air through a system of...
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    Vagina (category Human female reproductive system)
    fish and amphibians). In insects and other invertebrates, the vagina can be a part of the oviduct (see insect reproductive system). Birds have a cloaca into...
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    Eusociality (redirect from Eusocial insect)
    individuals truly dependent on each other for survival and reproductive success. For many insects, this irreversibility has changed the anatomy of the worker...
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    genitalia depends upon the taxonomic group that insect belongs to, the internal female reproductive system of all Lepidopterans consists of paired ovaries...
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    species of insect. Long, slender (extratory) malpighian tubules can be found between the junction of the mid- and hind gut. The reproductive system of females...
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  • Insect physiology includes the physiology and biochemistry of insect organ systems. Although diverse, insects are quite similar in overall design, internally...
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  • then gliding. The forelimbs could be used for grasping after a jump or as "insect trapping nets", animals could wave them, helping themselves during the jump...
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    coelom of the arthropod is reduced to small areas around the reproductive and excretory systems. Its place is largely taken by a hemocoel, a cavity that runs...
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  • "Microorganisms associated with chromosome destruction and reproductive isolation between two insect species", Nature, 346 (6284): 558–560, Bibcode:1990Natur...
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    Female sperm storage (category Animal reproductive system)
    retention, such as insect spermatheca and bird sperm storage tubules (bird anatomy), to more general regions of the reproductive tract enriched with...
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    have a carnivorous diet consisting of small invertebrates, especially insects, but omnivorous species exist and a few feed on plant matter. Frogs generally...
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    of x-ray photon irradiation on the reproductive cells of the insects. SIT does not involve the release of insects modified through transgenic (genetic...
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    Sex organ (redirect from Reproductive organ)
    A sex organ, also known as a reproductive organ, is a part of an organism that is involved in sexual reproduction. Sex organs constitute the primary sex...
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    which are larger than other wētā, despite the latter also being large by insect standards. Large species can be up to 7 cm (3 in), not inclusive of legs...
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    males. The reproductive strategies of many species include at least some amount of asexual reproduction by parthenogenesis. Some scale insects are serious...
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    Penis (redirect from Insect penises)
    Origins of Human Mating Systems. John OUP Oxford. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-19156-973-9. Susan Long (2006). Veterinary Genetics and Reproductive Physiology. Churchill...
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    glands.[better source needed] These glands are found only in mammals. In insects, male accessory glands produce products that mix with the sperm to protect...
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    Reproductive suppression is the prevention or inhibition of reproduction in otherwise healthy adult individuals. It occurs in birds, mammals, and social...
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    silverfish never evolved wings. In some eusocial insects like ants and termites, only the alate reproductive castes develop wings during the mating season...
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  • butterfly, Danaus plexippus. In cases where the insect remains active, feeding is reduced and reproductive development is slowed or halted. Embryonic diapause...
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    1007/s10152-010-0217-0. hdl:10261/44487. S2CID 41577834. Arkhipkin, A.I. (1992). "Reproductive system structure, development and function in cephalopods with a new general...
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  • one reproductive cycle, they can afford to expend energy on maternal care because those offspring are her only offspring. An iteroparous insect does...
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    Spermatheca (category Animal reproductive system)
    seminis (pl.: receptacula seminis), is an organ of the female reproductive tract in insects, e.g. ants, bees, some molluscs, Oligochaeta worms and certain...
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    The XY sex-determination system is a sex-determination system present in many mammals (including humans), some insects (Drosophila), some snakes, some...
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    reproduction. The breeding system, or how the sperm from one plant fertilizes the ovum of another, depends on the reproductive morphology, and is the single...
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    particular insect of interest is complicated and a long, intensive process. For example, using pheromones only attracts insects in their reproductive stage...
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  • Ovipore (category Animal reproductive system)
    pore-like sexual organ of a female insect that is inseminated by the spermatophores ejected by the aedeagus of a male insect during copulation. The spermatophores...
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    of spiders exhibit a great deal of sexual dimorphism. Spiders, unlike insects, have only two main body parts (tagmata) instead of three: a fused head...
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