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KMID : 0381920000300010021
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Korean Journal of Microscopy
2000 Volume.30 No. 1 p.21 ~ p.44
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Sperm Storage and Disappearance in the Reproductive Tract of the Female Korean Greater Horseshoe Bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum korai, during the Hibernation
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Lee Jung-Hun
Son Sung-Won
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Abstract
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This study was carried out to investigate sperm storage, and the fate of spermatozoa in the female reproductive tract during hibernation in Korean greater horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum korai. (1) Numerous sperm occurring in uterine lumen and glands were engulfed, and disappeared by the polymorphouclear leucocytes during the hibernation. (2) The stored sperm present in caudal isthmus of oviduct only, the heads of sperm toward the oviductal epithelial cells. Therefore, the projected sperm during the mating season are only alive in the caudal isthmus of oviduct in the long hibernation. The present result suggests that the caudal isthmus of oviduct may play an important role as the principal storage site in capacitation of sperm. (3) In March, the sperm do not occur in the caudal isthmus of oviduct. It suggests that the stored sperm in the caudal isthmus of oviduct should migrate to the ampulla of the site of fertilization to meet ovum in the period of ovulation. The results of this experiment consider that prolonged sperm storage, fate of sperm and sperm migration in the long hibernation have a kind of mechanism for the fertilization.
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KEYWORD
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Caudal isthmus of oviduct, Hibernating bat, Polymorphonuclear leucocyte, Sperm storage
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