Recovery from heat-induced infertility – a study of reproductive tissue responses and fitness consequences in male Drosophila melanogaster

Berta Canal Domenech^1,2 and Claudia Fricke^1,3,*

¹ Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

²Muenster Graduate School of Evolution, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

³Institute for Zoology, Halle-Wittenberg University, Halle (Saale), Germany

Corresponding author: Berta Canal Domenech

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Short title: Recovery from heat-induced infertility

Key words: sterility, accessory glands, seminal fluid proteins, spermatogenesis, climate change