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Male gut microbiome mediates post-mating sexual selection in Drosophila
Komal Maggu, Abhishek Meena, Alessio N. De Nardo…·Stefan Lüpold
The paper investigates how gut microbiomes affect sperm competition in Drosophila by testing synthetic bacterial consortia and identifies microbial effects on sperm transfer and viability.
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