Sentence examples for sperm availability from inspiring English sources

Osedax have evolved a specialized strategy to ensure reproductive success; females host dwarf males in their tubes assuring sperm availability (Figure 7b, [25], [124]).

Using semen from a highly fertile sire, the issue of sperm availability could be explored.

We previously addressed these relationships by using sperm availability to manipulate the level of early reproduction.

To distinguish between these models, we manipulated levels of progeny production by controlling sperm availability.

This suggests a concrete problem either with sperm availability for fertilisation or with their capability to fertilise.

Here, we show that increasing progeny production by manipulating sperm availability did not substantially alter life span.

Microscopic assays were done in Makler Chamber and assay volumes were modified according to the availability of sperm.

Why do not females produce more eggs and/or shorten the mating period to either match the high availability of sperm, or avoid male harassment by not being year-round receptive?

We manipulated progeny production by mating hermaphrodites to males, thereby increasing the availability of sperm and the level of progeny production.

In the present study, AI performed every 6 h would have replenished the sperm reservoir, increasing the availability of potentially fertile spermatozoa at the time of ovulation.

McCauley & Taylor [ 63] and Hatcher et al. [ 61, 64] both suggested that sex ratio distorters could depress infected host populations by skewing the sex ratio to the point at which the availability of sperm limited the population's rate of increase.