Sentences with phrase «storage organ»

In fruit flies, long female sperm storage organs give a boost to males producing longer sperm.

It's more real paleo — including starchy storage organs — plus rice and legumes.

Dandelions need to protect their roots very fiercely because these are the main storage organs for nutrients which fuel growth early in the spring.

The available plant foods were mainly the pith and underground storage organs of starch - containing plants.

Here we report experiments that tested how Lower Palaeolithic processing technologies affect chewing force production and efficacy in humans consuming meat and underground storage organs (USOs).

Crickets have one of the better - studied mechanisms of storage: A biomechanical trick in the female cricket's sperm storage organ somehow slows down sperm metabolism, extending their viability to several weeks.

«This is indicated by various means, including the re-mating interval; progeny production rate; sperm - storage organ morphology; and the way females store and use sperm.»

In these organs, sperm can remain viable for weeks or months, or can be displaced by the sperm of a new suitor as the female remates.JOHN BELOTE, MOLLIE MANIER, AND SCOTT PITNICKVISUALIZING SPERM WARS Though it is difficult to see what goes on inside a female fruit fly after copulation, recent genetic advances have allowed scientists to image sperm competition inside storage organs — the seminal receptacle and spermathecae — of female Drosophila melanogaster.

Adipose tissue, in addition to being a major energy storage organ, is also a source of several powerful hormones that control food intake, inflammation and immunity.»

Further, it's posited that the body will instead use lean tissue (from muscle / organs) and accelerate that loss — all to preserve our fat storage organ.

The team found a genetic relationship between the length of a female's sperm storage organ and male's sperm length, meaning when one trait evolves to be longer, the other follows in kind.

There is a direct correlation between the time needed for a female to consume the nuptial gift and the time required for complete transfer of sperm from the ampulla to the female's sperm storage organ.

«The colored heads allowed us to better study the physical displacement of the «resident» sperm by the second male from the female's storage organs.

«The longer a female waited to eject the sperm, the more time it had to enter her storage organs and displace the sperm from her previous mate,» says Pitnick.

The female's sperm storage organs, known as the spermathecae, can keep the sperm viable for at least the duration of the breeding season.

These diminutive Romeos place packages of sperm on the outside of the female's body, close to her sperm storage organ, just below her mouth.

In Atta leafcutter ants, the negative effect of the seminal fluid of other males was negated by secretion from the queen sperm - storage organ, suggesting that queens may control ejaculate competition after sperm storage.

Outside of behavioral adaptations that play out through copulation, the females of some species have evolved intricate sperm - storage organs that keep sperm alive.

These are very important and initially this tissue was thought to be just a storage organ, but now we know that it's really important in producing a number of hormones and peptides that regulate metabolism, and one of them being leptin.

The liver is not a storage organ for toxins but it is a storage organ for many important nutrients (vitamins A, D, E, K, B12 and folic acid, and minerals such as copper and iron).

High levels of inulin are typically found in the storage organs of plants, the roots.

According to Kresser, «A popular objection to eating liver is the belief that the liver is a storage organ for toxins in the body.

The body constantly taps into this storage organ when we enter the fasted state (~ 4 - 6 hours after a meal).

Seems to me that those who digested their heart or leg muscles before using fat reserves when there wasn't any food wouldn't have jumped into the gene pool with all the vigor as those of us that actually lived on our storage organ.