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Figure 7

From: A persistent mitochondrial deletion reduces fitness and sperm performance in heteroplasmic populations of C. elegans

Figure 7

Sperm location in the hermaphrodite reproductive tract. The top portion shows an inverted epifluorescent image of a fer-1 hermaphrodite that was mated to uaDf5; him-8 males. Only one lobe of the reproductive tract is shown, extending from the vulva to the spermathecal region. The lobe extending on the other side of the vulva was also examined. The compact spots representing the sperm nuclei (S) were assigned a location: those within 50 μm of the vulva were assigned to the vulval region, whereas those sperm outside the vulval region were assigned to the spermathecal region. The data in the bottom half of the figure represent the numbers (and percent) of sperm found in the two regions for hermaphrodites mated to either him-8 males (N = 15) or uaDf5; him-8 males (N = 15).

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