Live-action films of worm sperm help researchers track critical fertility enzymes

Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 22:30 in Biology & Nature

Compared to most other cells in an organism, sperm undergo a radical transformation to become compact and mobile delivery systems for paternal DNA. Even though sperm looks and moves quite differently across species, researchers now say that there are at least a few key enzymes that are critical for sperm development and mobility in species as different as mice and nematode worms.

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