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> > How much homogenization of sperm does take place in the spermatheca?


Can't cite the study, but apparently it is pretty well mixed prior to
storage.  Of course, due to randomness, there will be "clumps," as most of
us have observed when some aspect of the colony suddenly changes.

Randy Oliver

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