Ayako Gotoh

Associate Professor,Faculty of Science and Engineering, Konan University*Profile is at the time of the award.

2020Inamori Research GrantsBiology & Life sciences

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Research topics: Long-term sperm storage mechanisms in ant queens

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Summary: Females of social Hymenoptera mate only at the beginning of their adult lives and produce offspring until their death without additional mating. In most ant species, queens live for over a decade, indicating that ant queens can store large numbers of spermatozoa throughout their long lives, however the molecular and cellular mechanisms of the long-term sperm storage are still mystery. For this project, I focused on microenvironment of the sperm storage site in ant queens. I try to reveal chemical components, such as proteins, carbohydrate substances, ions and lipids, within the sperm storage organ, and then to examine how they effect to sperm physiology.

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