Variation in sperm morphology of Australian Vespertilionidae and its possible phylogenetic significance
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in Mammalia
- Vol. 49 (1) , 105-108
- https://doi.org/10.1515/mamm.1985.49.1.105
Abstract
Sperm morphology of Australian Vespertilionidae was investigated. A small spatulate-shaped head with a simple acrosome and constricted neck occurred in 6 spp. of Vespertilioninae and 2 spp. of Nyctophilinae. In sperm from a Murina spp. the sperm head was longer and a larger nucleus occurred; in Miniopterus schreibersii and even larger sperm was present in which there was a massive acrosome. The phylogenetic implications of these findings are briefly discussed.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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