The anatomy of fertilization in the yell
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B.I. Arthur Jr.; S.H. Sbilordo; A.J. Pemberton; P.I. Ward
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Female yellow dung flies, __Scathophaga stercoraria__, can influence the traffic of sperm stored in their spermathecae to the site of fertilization in the bursa copulatrix. However, the anatomical mechanisms employed are largely unknown. We investigated the anatomy of the female genital