First insights into female sperm storage duration in tardigrades
Abstract 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. F...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2022-06-01
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Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9010 |