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Fig. 6

From: Proteomic and evolutionary analyses of sperm activation identify uncharacterized genes in Caenorhabditis nematodes

Fig. 6

Functional assays of the NSPF gene family in C. elegans male fertility. a In a non-competitive sperm setting, knockout males (orange) do not produce significantly fewer progeny than control males (gray) when given an excess of females with which to mate (t = − 0.81, df = 26.0, p = 0.42). b In a competitive sperm setting, knockout males (orange) do not produce significantly fewer progeny than control wildtype males (z = − 0.12, p = 0.90) nor do they produce a significant deviation from 50% of the total progeny production (proportions test: χ2 = 1.27, df = 1, p = 0.26, C.I. of progeny produced = 27.4–55.9%). All fecundity data are provided in Additional file 7

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