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A spermatophore (from Greek spermato 'seed' and -phore 'bearer') or sperm ampulla is a capsule or mass containing spermatozoa created by males of various...

body attached to the males' spermatophore and consumed by the female, to distract her from eating the male's spermatophore and thereby increase his paternity...

a copulatory pad rather than suckers. This is used for depositing a spermatophore inside the mantle cavity of a female. A ventral part of the foot has...

(also called a spermatophore sac) is the part of the reproductive tract of cephalopods in which spermatophores are stored. Spermatophores are complex structures...

Centipede reproduction does not involve copulation. Males deposit a spermatophore for the female to take up. In temperate areas, egg laying occurs in...

Courtship rituals and methods of transfer of the spermatophore vary between species. In some, the spermatophore may be placed directly into the female cloaca...

also produce nuptial gifts in the form of packages of nutrient-rich spermatophores that are eaten by the female partner after mating. This has been shown...

female will assume the male's spermatophore, as the male must hold the female long enough to coax her over the spermatophore. Larger males tend to have more...

produce spermatophores, waterproof packets of sperm, which the females take into their bodies. A few such species rely on females to find spermatophores that...

mate with the female. Males transfer a protein-rich spermatophore to females upon mating. Spermatophores are nuptial gifts which serve different functions...

of the sternites of abdominal segments 3 and 4. The male produces a spermatophore which is attached to the substrate and is picked up by the female. Members...

are important for this and other adult behaviours. The male passes a spermatophore to the female; to reduce sperm competition, he may cover her with his...

derived from materials ingested as a larva and in some species, from the spermatophores received from males during mating. An egg can only be 1/1000 the mass...

model to study sexual selection. Females mate multiply and receive spermatophores containing sperm, nutrients and alkaloid compounds from numerous males...

deposits a spermatophore on the ground or in the water according to species, and the female picks this up with her vent. The spermatophore has a packet...

many land-living arthropods, male spiders do not produce ready-made spermatophores (packages of sperm), but spin small sperm webs onto which they ejaculate...

to deposit sperm directly (though sometimes in a capsule called a spermatophore) into the female's reproductive tract. Bonobos, chimpanzees and dolphins...

in contact with the female gonopore of the other. The penis passes a spermatophore into the female gonopore and sperm is transferred to, and probably stored...

deposits a spermatophore on the substrate. He next leads the female forward with the tail extended laterally until she picks up the spermatophore cap with...

and some molluscs undertake internal fertilization by transferring a spermatophore, a bundle of sperm, from the male to the female. Following fertilization...