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. 2016 Mar 10;10(1):47–52. doi: 10.1080/19336934.2016.1142636

Table 2.

Ultrastructural parameters of sperm used for comparisons of species.

    Mitochondrial derivatives Paracrystalline material Axoneme 64 sperm
Species
Granules
Same size
Different size
Largest derivative
Smallest derivative
9 + 9 + 2
per cyst
Zaprionus africanus + + + + + +
Zaprionus camerounensis + + + + + +
Zaprionus davidi + + +
Zaprionus gabonicus + + + + + +
Zaprionus megalorchis + + + + + +
Zaprionus tuberculatus + + + +
Zaprionus indianus*1 + + + + + +
Zaprionus sepsoides*1 + + + + + +
Drosophila willistoni + + + + +
Drosophila melanogaster*2,3 na + + + +
Drosophila simulans*4 na + + + +
Drosophila cardini*2 na + + +
Drosophila dunni*2 na + + +
Drosophila hydei*2,5 na + + + +
Drosophila subobscura*6,7 na + +
Scaptodrosophila latifasciaeformis + + + + + +

Note.

*

1Rego et al. (2013), *2Mojica et al. (2000), *3Noguchi and Miller (2003), *4Pasini et al. (1996), *5 Henning (1992), *6Ramamurthy et al. (1980), *7Hauschteck-Junguen and Maurer (1976), na: not analyzed.