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The change in weight of the seminal vesicles provides an indication of the amount of sperm transferred during one insemination, while the change in prostate gland weight indicates seminal fluid transferred.
To determine the amount of sperm and seminal fluid transferred in a single insemination, we isolated animals (26 to 30 mm) for two weeks and allowed one subset to inseminate a partner once (observed during 5 h), while keeping the other subset isolated.
It has been reported that receiving the beneficial seminal accessory fluid transferred by males during mating was necessary to initiate oviposition (Barth and Lester 1973; Leopold 1976).
While it is likely that some seminal fluid is also transferred at the same time as sperm, various papers have already shown a major effect of the seminal fluid transferred before the sperm [ 48- 50].
We used shotgun peptide sequencing (2d-LC/MS) to search for these candidate seminal fluid proteins in H. erato spermatophores, the proteinaceous packet containing sperm and seminal fluid transferred from males to females during copulation.
In the second experiment, we specifically assessed the investment in ejaculates (i.e. male investment) by determining the number of sperm and amount of seminal fluid transferred during a single copulation.
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