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    Female sperm storage is a biological process and often a type of sexual selection in which sperm cells transferred to a female during mating are temporarily...
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    the adult human body Female sperm Female sperm storage Mendelian inheritance Polyspermy Sperm competition Sperm granuloma Sperm theft "Spermatium definition...
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    toxic seminal substances to reduce female re-mating tendencies to cope with sperm competition. Offensive tactics of sperm competition involve direct interference...
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    in size and/or form. The smaller gamete is male, a sperm cell, whereas the larger gamete is female, typically an egg cell. Anisogamy is predominant among...
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    doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01782.x. Sever, D.; Hamlett, W. (2002). "Female sperm storage in reptiles". The Journal of Experimental Zoology. 292 (2): 187–199...
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    queen to choose the sex of the egg. Cyphopods, sperm receptacles in female millipedes Female sperm storage Reproductive system of gastropods Tales V. Pascini...
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    Spermatozoon (redirect from Sperm cells)
    body the sperm's survival likelihood is reduced and it may die, thereby decreasing the total sperm quality. Sperm cells come in two types, "female" and "male"...
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    spermathecae (sperm-storage organs). The sperm storage organ removes sperm from males who mate later, which reflects cryptic female choice. Cryptic female choice...
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    Marrow T, Spicer GS (December 1999). "Evolution of Multiple Kinds of Female Sperm-Storage Organs in Drosophila". Evolution; International Journal of Organic...
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  • sperm are successful in fertilizing their eggs or not. It occurs in internally-fertilizing species and involves differential use of sperm by females when...
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  • production and storage. Production takes place in the testicles, which are housed in the temperature regulating scrotum, immature sperm then travel to...
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  • storage units for sperm, where a female can introduce the stored sperm to her eggs when she finds it optimal. It is this factor that has put females in...
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    vas deferens (distally). Its primary function is the storage, maturation and transport of sperm cells. The epididymis is situated posterior and somewhat...
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    called the "Cotton Bugs". Lixus concavus, the rhubarb curculio weevil Female sperm storage Black Belt in the American South Notes Jones, Robert (2000-01-21)...
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    recorded in Europe List of Orthoptera recorded in Britain Orthopterida Female sperm storage "Orthoptera - Grasshoppers, Locusts, Crickets, Katydids". Discover...
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    Semen (section Storage)
    cryopreservation can be used for far longer storage durations. For human sperm, the longest reported successful storage with this method is 21 years. Semen can...
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  • Sperm donation is the provision by a man of his sperm with the intention that it be used in the artificial insemination or other "fertility treatment"...
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    top, leaving the heavier sperm, containing the female chromosome pair (XX), at the bottom, thus allowing selection and storage according to sex. The alternative...
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    male reproductive system which functions to produce and deposit sperm; and the female reproductive system which functions to produce egg cells, and to...
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    occur until after its hibernation due to female sperm storage. Females are pregnant in May and June. Pregnant females form large aggregations in roosts, called...
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    sequence can be expanded upon using solid-phase peptide synthesis. Ero1 Female sperm storage Glycocalyx Glycome Glycopeptide Gp120 Gp41 Miraculin P-glycoprotein...
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    that sperm storage is under female control through cryptic sperm choice. The increase in sperm storage from the gift giving males might allow females to...
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  • process, with a genetic link between sperm length and the length of the female seminal receptacle (sperm-storage organ) length, combined with an increasing...
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  • D. M. 2002. Female sperm storage in amphibians. J. Exper. Zool. 292:165–179. Sever, D. M., and W. C. Hamlett. 2002. Female sperm storage in reptiles....
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  • mirabilis, the male pushes up the female during mating and performs alternate pedipalp insertions into the female sperm storage organs place ventrally on the...
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    attempt to increase the likelihood of success of their own sperm fertilizing the eggs of females when competition is involved. Mate guarding behaviour can...
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    Kathrin; Johannisson, Anders; Morrell, Jane M. (2017-12-21). "Sperm Quality during Storage Is Not Affected by the Presence of Antibiotics in EquiPlus Semen...
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  • about biology and life history. Parasitic flies of domestic animals Female sperm storage Entomophthora muscae Ecology many relevant components Ecosystem model...
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  • to store sperm in comparison to scrotal mammals. Limited sperm storage in the reptilian epididymis may be circumvented by the ability of female reptiles...
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    vitro storage, freezing cuttings from the plant, or stocking the seeds (e.g. in a seedbank). For animals, this is done by the freezing of sperm and eggs...
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