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ArticleInsects2013

Sperm Cells of a Primitive Strepsipteran.

James B Nardi, Juan A Delgado, Francisco Collantes, Lou Ann Miller, Charles M Bee, Jeyaraney Kathirithamby

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Article in Insects, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

James B NardiDepartment of Entomology, University of Illinois, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. j-nardi@uiuc.edu.
Juan A DelgadoDepartment of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, Murcia 30100, Spain. jdelgado@um.es.
Francisco CollantesDepartment of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, Murcia 30100, Spain. fcollant@um.es.
Lou Ann MillerBiological Electron Microscopy, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, Room 125, University of Illinois, 104 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. lamiller@illinois.edu.
Charles M BeeImaging Technology Group, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. c-bee1@illinois.edu.
Jeyaraney KathirithambyDepartment of Zoology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK. jeyaraney.kathirithamby@zoo.ox.ac.uk.
Universidad de Murcia · ESUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · USUrbana University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The unusual life style of Strepsiptera has presented a long-standing puzzle in establishing its affinity to other insects. Although Strepsiptera share few structural similarities with other insect orders, all members of this order share a parasitic life style with members of two distinctive families in the Coleoptera-the order now considered the most closely related to Strepsiptera based on recent genomic evidence. Among the structural features of several strepsipteran families and other insect families that have been surveyed are the organization of testes and ultrastructure of sperm cells. For comparison with existing information on insect sperm structure, this manuscript presents a description of testes and sperm of a representative of the most primitive extant strepsipteran family Mengenillidae, Eoxenos laboulbenei. We compare sperm structure of E. laboulbenei from this family with that of the three other families of Strepsiptera in the other strepsipteran suborder Stylopidia that have been studied as well as with members of the beetle families Meloidae and Rhipiphoridae that share similar life histories with Strepsiptera. Meloids, Rhipiphorids and Strepsipterans all begin larval life as active and viviparous first instar larvae. This study examines global features of these insects' sperm cells along with specific ultrastructural features of their organelles.

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MeloidaeRhipiphoridaesperm structureStrepsipteratestis

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PMID26462430
PMCPMC4553476
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