Drosophila melanogaster seminal fluid can protect the sperm of other males
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...I also present 95% confidence intervals for effect size, measured by Cohen’s r , to illustrate the range of statistically supported effect sizes (Nakagawa & Cuthill 2007; Stephens et al. 2007)....
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...Seminal fluid also contains anti-oxidants in D. melanogaster (Mueller et al. 2005), Apis mellifera (Collins et al. 2004), mammals (de Lamirande et al. 1997) and birds (Breque et al. 2003), which could protect sperm from damage by reactive oxygen species....
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...Males are expected to possess adaptations that increase the number of live, functional sperm that reach storage or the site of fertilization (e.g. Snook 2005; Reinhardt 2007; Holman & Snook 2008) to maximize their reproductive success, especially when females mate multiply and there is an overlap…...
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...…sperm competition, spermicide, viability staining Functional Ecology (2008) xx , 000–000 Introduction The seminal fluid of Drosophila melanogaster contains a diverse array of molecules that serve a multitude of functions (e.g. Wolfner 1997; Chapman 2001; Chapman & Davies 2004; Ram & Wolfner 2007)....
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