In promiscuous fruit flies, the last male to inseminate a female has a fertilising advantage. Recent evidence indicates that this happens because females eject previously stored semen after a new copulation, revealing female bias in sperm use and the resulting battle of the sexes over fertilisation.
Keywords:
Animals
,Biological Evolution
,Drosophila melanogaster
,Female
,Male
,Selection, Genetic
,Semen
,Sexual Behavior, Animal
,Spermatozoa