Some mouse sperm can identify, and even cooperate with, its brethren
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 13:07
in Biology & Nature
Some mouse sperm can discriminate between its brethren and competing sperm from other males, clustering with its closest relatives to swim faster in the race to the egg. But this sort of cooperation appears to be present only in certain promiscuous species, where it affords an individual's sperm a competitive advantage over that of other males.