Female sperm storage is a biological process and often a type of sexual selection in which sperm cells transferred to a female during mating are temporarily...

the adult human body Female sperm Female sperm storage Mendelian inheritance Polyspermy Sperm competition Sperm granuloma Sperm theft "Spermatium definition...

toxic seminal substances to reduce female re-mating tendencies to cope with sperm competition. Offensive tactics of sperm competition involve direct interference...

in size and/or form. The smaller gamete is male, a sperm cell, whereas the larger gamete is female, typically an egg cell. Anisogamy is predominant among...

queen to choose the sex of the egg. Cyphopods, sperm receptacles in female millipedes Female sperm storage Reproductive system of gastropods Tales V. Pascini...

doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01782.x. Sever, D.; Hamlett, W. (2002). "Female sperm storage in reptiles". The Journal of Experimental Zoology. 292 (2): 187–199...

body the sperm's survival likelihood is reduced and it may die, thereby decreasing the total sperm quality. Sperm cells come in two types, "female" and "male"...

spermathecae (sperm-storage organs). The sperm storage organ removes sperm from males who mate later, which reflects cryptic female choice. Cryptic female choice...

sperm are successful in fertilizing their eggs or not. It occurs in internally-fertilizing species and involves differential use of sperm by females when...

storage units for sperm, where a female can introduce the stored sperm to her eggs when she finds it optimal. It is this factor that has put females in...