spermatheca

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• "Apyrene sperm may take less energy to produce than eupyrene sperm, and thus could be used by males as cheap filler for the spermatheca.

  Academic text (1999)

• This multifunctional organ, which is shaped so that it can reach directly into the female's sperm storage organ, the spermatheca, is covered with bristle-like structures that enable him to scrape out the sperm of other males from the spermatheca before depositing his own sperm.

  Academic text (1999)

• Like many other female insects, female crickets possess a special organ, the spermatheca, where the sperm from all the males is stored until the eggs are laid.

  Academic text (1991)

• Using special receptors in the spermatheca that can detect mechanical force, Cook explains, female butterflies may be able to assess the volume or number of sperm in storage and use this information to determine if or when to mate again.

  Academic text (1999)

• But even as he was trying simultaneously to censor and sing the poetry of his bees, he remembered with stunning clarity, as in a vision, how the beautiful queen carried within her the entire spermatheca received from her lover, who had pursued her with such desperate valor, himself perishing in the union.

  Fiction book (1993)

• This multifunctional organ, which is shaped so that it can reach directly into the female's sperm storage organ, the spermatheca, is covered with bristle-like structures that enable him to scrape out the sperm of other males from the spermatheca before depositing his own sperm.

  Academic text (1999)

• After mating, the female jewel wasp stores sperm in a sac known as a spermatheca.

• Female crickets have a specialized organ called a spermatheca where they retain sperm until fertilization is needed.

• In many female insects, the spermatheca serves as a storage chamber for sperm collected from various males.

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