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The ejaculate was mixed inside a microcentrifuge tube with 50 μL of ‘spider saline solution’. To homogenize the sample, the solution was vortexed for 20 s using a shedding frequency of 40 Hz. Firstly, we analyzed spermatozoa viability placing a 10 μL sample on a glass slide with 1 μ...