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How long is a giant sperm?

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resolves10.1086/285633

Male Gametic Strategies: Sperm Size, Testes Size, and the Allocation of Ejaculate Among Successive Mates by the Sperm-Limited Fly Drosophila pachea and Its Relatives

resolves10.1073/pnas.91.20.9277

Large-male advantages associated with costs of sperm production in Drosophila hydei, a species with giant sperm.

resolves10.1007/BF00170253

Operational sex ratios and sperm limitation in populations of Drosophila pachea

resolves10.1016/0925-4773(91)90047-A

Intracellular sperm/egg interactions in Drosophila: A three-dimensional structural analysis of a paternal product in the developing egg

resolves10.1073/pnas.91.22.10399

Another way of being anisogamous in Drosophila subgenus species: giant sperm, one-to-one gamete ratio, and high zygote provisioning.

resolves10.1016/0022-1910(81)90112-8

Ejaculate esterase 6 and initial sperm use by female Drosophila melanogaster

The 1 reference without a DOI — listed, not checked

no DOI — not checkedCooper, K. W. in Biology of Drosophila (ed. Demerec, M.) 1–61 (Wiley, New York, 1950).

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