Precious essences: female secretions promote sperm storage in Drosophila.

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Published in PLoS Biol on November 08, 2011

Authors

Mariana F Wolfner1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America. mfw5@cornell.edu

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