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Fig. 5

From: Diversification and hybrid incompatibility in auto-pseudogamous species of Mesorhabditis nematodes

Fig. 5

Drastic reduction of sperm area in pseudogamous Mesorhabditis species. The raw data are in Table S4. Sexual species are shown in black and pseudogamous species are in blue. M. sp: M. spiculigera AF72, M. l: M. longespiculosa DF5017, M. be: M. belari JU2817, M. p: M. paucipapillata JU3003, M. si: M. simplex JU2864, M. o: M. okuensis JU3143, M. bi: M. bifurcata JU2902, M. m: M. monhystera JU2855. a Violin boxplot of sperm area in μm2 for sexual and asexual Mesorhabditis strains. A GLMM model has been used to show the effect of the reproductive mode on sperm area. b Representative DIC pictures of sperm cells. Scale bar is 10 μm

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