Females fight back in sperm wars

Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 05:30 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) —Females exposed to a risk of sperm competition have been found to produce more defensive ova compared to the eggs of females reared under no risk of sperm competition, according to researchers at The University of Western Australia who studied house mice.

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