Female sperm storage
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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 retained within a specific part of the repr
Sperm storage organs in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Female was first mated with GFP-male and then re-mated with RFP-male.
Seminal fluid protein
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Seminal fluid proteins, or accessory gland proteins, are one of the non-sperm components of semen. In many animals with internal fertilization, males transfer a complex cocktail of proteins in their s
Heliconius erato, or the red postman, was among the first species of butterfly to have its seminal fluid proteome studied.
Research on the function of SFPs has been conducted primarily in insect species, especially D. melanogaster.