Thursday, September 16, 2010

The sperm is like a fruit juice

The sperm of male fruit flies are coated with a chemical 'sex peptide' which inhibits the female's usual afternoon siesta and compels her into an intense period of foraging. Fruit flies have sperm 20x the size of their bodies in a 1995 study published in nature, he documented the longest sperm cell known to science it belongs to a species of fruit fly called drosophila bifurca and measures some two. Sperm fruit us researchers using genetically engineered fruit flies with glowing sperm track the seed's progress inside the female in real time. Study: eating more fruits and veggies can increase mens' sperm counts lycopene has been shown to increase sperm fertility fruits and vegetables that are high in lycopene include tomatoes, watermelon, pink grapefruit, pink guava, papaya, and red bell. Implications for sleep behaviour in humans from fruit fly sperm the sperm of male fruit flies are coated with a chemical "sex peptide" which inhibits the female's usual afternoon siesta and compels her into an intense period of foraging activity.

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