Male-derived transcripts isolated from the mated female reproductive tract in Drosophila melanogaster.

ABSTRACT: In species with internal fertilization, sperm, and seminal fluid are transferred from male to female during mating. While both sperm and seminal fluid contain various types of molecules, including RNA, the role of most of these molecules in the coordination of fertilization or in other possible functions is poorly understood. In Drosophila, exosomes from the accessory gland, which produces seminal fluid, are transferred to females, but their potential cargoes have not been described. Moreover, while the RNA composition of sperm has been described in several mammalian species, little work on this problem has occurred in Drosophila. Here we use single nucleotide polymorphism differences between males and females from a set of highly inbred lines of D. melanogaster, and transcriptome data fro

SUBMITTER: Cridland JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10627254 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature