Male accessory gland

Male Accessory Glands in humans are the seminal vesicles, prostate gland, and the bulbourethral glands.^[1] In insects, male accessory glands produce products that mix with the sperm to protect and preserve the sperm.^[2] Some insecticides can induce an increase in the protein content of the male accessory glands of certain types of insects. This has the unintended effect of increasing the number of offspring they produce.^[3]

See also

• Pesticide resistance

References

1. ^ Darling, David. "male reproductive accessory glands". male reproductive accessory glands. http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/M/male_reproductive_accessory_glands.html. 
2. ^ Keeley, Larry. "INSECT ORGANIZATION: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION". Texas A&M University. http://entochem.tamu.edu/insect_structure-function/index.html. 
3. ^ Li-Ping Wang, Jun Shen, Lin-Quan Ge, Jin-Cai Wu, Guo-Qin Yang and Gary C. Jahn. Insecticide-induced increase in the protein content of male accessory glands and its effect on the fecundity of females in the brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens Stål (Hemiptera: Delphacidae). Crop Protection 29:1280-1285.

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