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Don't pull the plug! the Drosophila mating plug preserves fertility.
Article in Fly, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
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20 citing papers in PubMed.
- A Male Expressed Copulatory Plug Increases Female Fertility inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Female genetic variation controlling timing of mating plug ejection inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Odorant-binding proteins and chemosensory proteins in insects: structural insights, functional plasticity, and prospects for targeted pest management.Molecular biology reports · 2026Review
- Brain-gonad axes harmonize male mating drive and reproductive strategy via steroid hormones.Nature communications · 2026Article
- A comparison of spermatogenesis between flies and men-conserved processes of male gamete production.Human reproduction update · 2025Review
- Ejaculate Ejection by Female Fruit Flies Does Not Correlate With Mating Latency or Male Presence, Irrespective of How Ejection Is Measured.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Gone but not forgotten: dynamics of sperm storage and potential ejaculate digestion in the black soldier flyRoyal Society open science · 2024Article
- Females translate male mRNA transferred during mating.iScience · 2024Article
- O-Glycosylation of a male seminal fluid protein influences sperm binding and female postmating behavior.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Proteomic diversification of spermatostyles among six species of whirligig beetles.Molecular reproduction and development · 2024Article
- Finishing the egg.Genetics · 2024Article
- Evolution of Reproductive Behavior.Genetics · 2020Review
- Control of mating plug expelling and sperm storage in Drosophila: A gynandromorph- and mutation-based dissection.Biologia futura · 2019Article
- Selection shapes turnover and magnitude of sex-biased expression in Drosophila gonads.BMC evolutionary biology · 2019Article
- Genetic Factors Influencing Sperm Competition.Frontiers in genetics · 2019Review
- Evolutionary Dynamics of Male Reproductive Genes in theG3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2017Article
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- Cleavage of the Drosophila seminal protein Acp36DE in mated females enhances its sperm storage activity.Journal of insect physiology · 2017Article
- The whole genome sequence of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), reveals insights into the biology and adaptive evolution of a highly invasive pest species.Genome biology · 2016Article
- Dynamic changes in ejaculatory bulb size during Drosophila melanogaster aging and mating.Journal of insect physiologyArticle
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Abstract
Mating plugs are hardened structures--typically a coagulation of seminal fluid components--that are transferred to, or formed within, the female reproductive tract of numerous animal species (both mammals and insects). Analysis of the role(s) of the mating plug in reproduction has been conducted in a wide array of diverse species. These structures have been proposed to have a multitude of functions, which include altering female re-mating rate, acting as a barrier to re-mating and being required for sperm storage or sperm movement to occur in mated females. A recent analysis of the Drosophila melanogaster mating plug has shown that proper formation of the structure is required for optimal fertility in flies: the Drosophila mating plug is required to retain the ejaculate within the female reproductive tract once mating has terminated. Here, we discuss the possible implications of the Drosophila mating plug in the fertility of this species in light of these new results.
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