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1. The vagina is almost as long as the penis, with various accessory glands like short bundles surrounding the section between the oviduct and the vagina.
2. Accessory glands or glandular parts of the oviducts produce a variety of substances for sperm maintenance, transport, and fertilization, as well as for protection of eggs.
3. Another type of fly made sperm but lacked the so-called main cells in the accessory gland, the cell population known to generate important ingredients of seminal fluid.
4. The spermatheca duct is usually thick; the vagina and atrium are short, the vagina accessory glands are two lobe-like objects connected to the vagina by thin ducts.
5. The hermaphroditic duct, a highly glandular duct of comparatively even diameter, traverses the greater portion of the first coil of the body to enter the accessory glands.
6. The pheromonostatic peptide ( PSP ), a protein 57 amino acids long found in the male accessory gland, is what causes depletion of the female s sex pheromone.
7. Accessory glands of the female secrete an adhesive substance to attach eggs to an object and they also supply material that provides the eggs with a protective coating.
8. Similarly, " Drosophila melanogaster " males release toxic seminal fluids, known as ACPs ( accessory gland proteins ), from their accessory glands to impede the female from participating in future copulations.
9. The " Parnassius " butterflies also have a peculiar reproductive strategy in that the male has special accessory glands that produce a mating plug that seals the female genitalia after mating.
10. Similarly, " Drosophila melanogaster " males release toxic seminal fluids, known as ACPs ( accessory gland proteins ), from their accessory glands to impede the female from participating in future copulations.