Drosophila bifurca
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drosophila-bifurca-320-12571985
title:
Drosophila bifurca
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Drosophila bifurca is a species of fruit fly. Males of this species are known to have the longest sperm cells of any organism on Earth—5.8 cm long when uncoiled, over twenty times the entire body length of the male. The cells are mostly tail, and are delivered to the females in tangled coils. A male can only make a few hundred such cells during its lifetime. The other members of the genus Drosophila also make very few, giant sperm cells, with D. bifurca's being the longest. The sperm cells are p
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Species of fly
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophila_bifurca
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2023-08-03T05:36:51Z
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