Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Minireview cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Insights into female sperm storage from the spermathecal fluid proteome of the honeybee Apis mellifera. | Open Access Researc h Insights into female sperm storage from the spermathecal fluid proteome of the honeybee Apis mellifera Boris Baer Holger Eubel Nicolas L Taylor Nicholas O Toole and A Harvey Millar Addresses ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology The University of Western Australia Stirling Hwy Crawley WA 6009 Australia. Ventre for Evolutionary Biology School of Animal Biology The University of Western Australia Stirling Hwy Crawley WA 6009 Australia. Centre of Excellence for Computational Systems Biology The University of Western Australia Stirling Hwy Crawley WA 6009 Australia. Correspondence Boris Baer. Email bcbaer@ Published 18 June 2009 Genome Biology 2009 10 R67 doi gb-2009- l0-6-r67 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http 2009 10 6 R67 Received 20 February 2009 Revised 6 May 2009 Accepted l8 June 2009 2009 Baer et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Female animals are often able to store sperm inside their body - in some species even for several decades. The molecular basis of how females keep non-own cells alive is largely unknown but since sperm cells are reported to be transcriptionally silenced and therefore limited in their ability to maintain their own function it is likely that females actively participate in sperm maintenance. Because female contributions are likely to be of central importance for sperm survival molecular insights into the process offer opportunities to observe mechanisms through which females manipulate sperm. Results We used the honeybee Apis mellifera in which queens are highly polyandrous and able to maintain sperm viable for several years. We
