"autosperm" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "auto- + sperm",
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      "form": "autosperms",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1998, Tim R. Birkhead, Anders Pape Møller, Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection, page 237",
          "text": "Mating events whereby autosperm are donated to one partner while receiving allosperm from a third individual are known from sea slugs (see Chapter 8) and a monogenean flatworm (MacDonald and Caley 1975).",
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        {
          "ref": "2000, Robert T. Dillon, The Ecology of Freshwater Molluscs, page 80",
          "text": "They seem to have mechanisms that favour fertilization by allosperm (donated by a partner) over autosperm (produced endogenously).",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Gregory A. Lewbart, Invertebrate Medicine, page 101",
          "text": "During copulation, the penis deposits the autosperm (which now become allosperm) into the vaginal channel of the distal hermaphroditic duct of another animal. The allosperm then travel to the spermatotheca.",
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        "Sperm that has been produced endogenously."
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        "(biology) Sperm that has been produced endogenously."
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  "word": "autosperm"
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