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THE spermatozoa of ticks are provided with a peculiar ‘plasmal-rod’ or spermatophore which has long been a puzzle to cytologists, but the careful work of Nordenskiold (1920) on Ixodes ricinus Linn, threw considerable light on the subject.
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WARREN, E. The Spermatogenesis of Ticks. Nature 128, 454–455 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128454b0
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