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SUBMITTER: Liberti J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5134051 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liberti Joanito J Baer Boris B Boomsma Jacobus J JJ
Biology letters 20161101 11
Queens of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants store sperm of multiple males after a single mating flight, and never remate even though they may live for decades and lay tens of thousands of eggs. Sperm of different males are initially transferred to the bursa copulatrix and compete for access to the long-term storage organ of queens, but the factors determining storage success or failure have never been studied. We used in vitro experiments to show that reproductive tract secretions of Acromyrmex echin ...[more]