Live-action films of worm sperm help researchers track critical fertility enzymes
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 08:30
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, SF State researcher Diana Chu and colleagues 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.