Gene involved in sperm-to-egg binding is key to fertility in mammals
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 10:30
in Biology & Nature
Scientists looking at fertility in mice, have discovered for the first time that the gene, which makes a protein called PDILT, enables sperm to bind to an egg, a process essential to fertilization.
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