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Liebster award!
The blogger over at Alternative Hypothesis has nominated me for a Liebster blog award! Four other great blogs were also honored, so I recommend that you check those out. The Liebster award is a way for bloggers to help each … Continue reading
A protein in worm semen is an “on” switch for sperm
If you’ve perused the other posts on this site, you may have noticed that I have a thing for seminal fluid. That’s because semen is awesome: it’s full of proteins, lipids, sugars, and who knows what else, all of which … Continue reading
Posted in Eggs and sperm, Seminal fluid
Tagged male fertility, Protease, Scientific literature, sperm, Sperm activation, worms
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Water bug sex!
Check out how giant water bugs have sex (and how the dads take care of the eggs) at TheDragonflyWoman.com!
Diatom sperm go fishing for eggs
Did you know that diatoms have sex? I didn’t. You know diatoms, those microscopic, silicon-encased, sorta algae things that live in the ocean…and basically anywhere else there’s water. They’re single-celled organisms that hang out at the bottom of the food … Continue reading
My, what a big claw you have
Male fiddler crabs wave their giant claws to get the attention of females. Females prefer males that wave a lot, in line with a common theme in female choice: making the male work for it. Waving that big thing around … Continue reading
Posted in Sexual selection
Tagged Female choice, Fiddler crab, Male courtship, Scientific literature
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