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Primate sperm competition: speed matters

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Primate Sperm Competition: Speed Matters

ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2007) — Researchers at UC San Diego and UC Irvine have found evidence that supports the theory that reproductive competition during the evolution of primate species has occurr...

Females Shut Down Male-Male Sperm Competition in Leafcutter Ants

ScienceDaily (Apr. 26, 2010) — Leafcutter ant queens can live for twenty years, fertilizing millions of eggs with sperm stored after a single day of sexual activity. See Also: Plants & Animals Matin...
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Sperm Prefer Attractive Females

I don't make this stuff up, promise. I just find it and pass it along for your perusal: "Males may alter the velocity of sperm they allocate to copulations by strategically firing their left and right...

Longest Known Sperm Create Paradox of Nature

If there was a prize for biggest sperm in nature, it would go to Drosophila bifurca, a tiny fruit fly whose coiled sperm would measure more than 2 inches long if straightened out. That's 1,000 times l...
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Semen displacement as a sperm competition strategy in humans

sperm competition played a role in shaping the human penis. The human penis, .... It follows from the semen displacement hypothesis that sperm competition ...

When It Comes To Sperm Competition, Size Can Matter It's The...

Nov 8, 2002 ... When it comes to mating and determining whose sperm reaches the elusive egg, females control both the playing field and the rules of the ...

Sperm competition in birds

of sperm competition means that all reproductive features, in- ... Sperm competition in birds occurs when a female is inseminated by more than one male ...

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I know what you're wondering, and the answer is: humans fall right on the line, suggesting that sperm competition has played a minor role in the evolution ...

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Sperm wars

January 25, 2000, 12:00 am
Scientists have found that the genes involved in the production of sperm have been evolving at a much faster rate than most other human genes. This insight into the evolution of human procreation has ...

Fears over sperm injection technique eased

April 3, 2000, 12:00 am
A new study of 1000 babies born following the fertility treatment intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) was reported in the journal Human Reproduction last week. The researchers, based at the Sahlgr...
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