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The Hidden Cost of Stored Sperm Across the Animal Kingdom
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Storing sperm is common across nature, yet the cells deteriorate while they wait, a process called post-meiotic senescence. This Proceedings of the Royal Society B meta-analysis pools over 170 studies spanning humans and 30 animal species, from queen ants to hibernating bats, to map the universal evolutionary tradeoffs and costs of making sperm wait for its moment. This episode was generated by…