The capacity for sperm storage within the female reproductive tract occurs widely across all
groups of vertebrate species and is exceptionally well developed in some reptiles (maximum …

Drawing on the latest research from around the world, Life of Marsupials explores this
unusual group of mammals covering the extraordinary diversity of forms around the world …

The duration of sperm storage by females differs markedly between reptiles (maximum:
2555 d [7 years] and birds (maximum: 117d), with mammals showing both very short (< 1 d) …

The physiological mechanisms which regulate and maintain oviducal sperm selection,
transport, and storage are reviewed in this article. In addition, oviduct structure, sperm …

The marsupial genus Antechinus is a group of small carnivorous marsupials from the order
Dasyuromorphia (Family Dasyuridae) and is found in eastern Australia. The life history of all …

This authoritative volume represents a complete and comprehensive guide to the husbandry
of Australian marsupials and other mammals. Australian Mammals: Biology and Captive …

Among eutherian mammals, sperm competition has favoured the evolution of high sperm
numbers and long spermatozoa, but it cannot account for all the variability observed. In this …

Attachment of spermatozoa to oviductal epithelial cells (OEC) may be a prefertilization event
in some species. We tested the hypothesis that spermatozoa that attach to equine OEC …

In order to understand why sperm pairing has evolved in most American marsupials, the
movement parameters of spermatozoa from Monodelphis domestica were analyzed after …

We describe the patterns of paternity success from laboratory mating experiments conducted
in Antechinus agilis, a small size dimorphic carnivorous marsupial (males are larger than …