Adaptation to long sperm in Drosophila:
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Dominique Joly; Nathalie Luck; BΓ©atrice Dejonghe
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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 Sperm are generally small and produced in huge numbers, but some species combine exaggerated sperm length with extremely limited numbers of sperm, an evolutionary trend that deviates from the theory of anisogamy. Sperm gigantism has arisen recurrently in various species, but insects exh