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Snakes contain type 3B intermediate sperm basic proteins by cytochemical criteria. Electrophoresis of basic proteins from epididymis chromatin as well as from testis and ductus deferens cell suspensions shows two fast\u2010moving bands in the vicinity of herring protamine. These proteines are triprotamines containing about 27 mol % arginine, along with lysine and histidine. Lizards have type 1 protamines in their sperm nuclei cytochemically and also show a two\u2010banded electrophoretic pattern similar to that of snakes. However, these proteins are triprotamines, similar to those in snakes with 25 mol % arginine. It may be that these are testisspecific proteins of the spermatid stage in lizards since a cytochemical transition can be observed from type 3A intermediate proteins in spermatids of testis to type 1 protamine in mature sperm of ductus deferens. Turtles contain type 3A intermediate sperm basic proteins cytochemically and basic proteins from epididymis chromatin display both a prominent band and a minor band close to, but slightly slower than, the two bands for snakes and lizards. Amino acid analysis of these bands shows that these basic proteins are also triprotamines but with a higher level of arginine, about 48 mol %, than that in snake and lizard sperm proteins. Basic proteins from epididymis chromatin of a single Mississippi alligator show three main bands moving close to the bands of snakes, lizards, and turtles. These proteins have amino acid compositions typical for triprotamines, with 28\u201339 mol % arginine. The data indicate that the sperm basic proteins of representatives of 25 species in three reptilian orders are very similar, in contrast to the diversity of sperm protein types found in frogs (Kasinsky, Huang, Kwauk, Mann, Sweeney, and Yee: <jats:italic>J. Exp. Zool., 203<\/jats:italic>:109\u2013126, '78; Kasinsky, Huang, Mann, Roca, and Subirana: <jats:italic>J. Exp. Zool., 234<\/jats:italic>:33\u201346, '85a). This appears to be part of a macroevolutionary trend from diversity of sperm basic proteins in frogs to relative constancy in reptiles (Kasinsky, Mann, Pickerill, Gutovich, and Byrd, Jr.: <jats:italic>J. Cell Biol., 91<\/jats:italic>:1879, '81; Kasinsky, Mann, Lemke, and Huang: In: <jats:italic>Chromosomal Proteins and Gene Expression<\/jats:italic>, Plenum Press, New York, pp. 333\u2013352, '85b). 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