Live-action films of worm sperm contain clues to male fertility
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 14:00
in Biology & Nature
(Medical Xpress) -- Mouse sperm propel themselves with a whip-like molecular tail that lashes back and forth. Sperm in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans crawl along using a flat, fibrous foot called a pseudopod. They couldnt be more different, and yet they depend on the same enzymes to help them develop and move about, according to a new study by SF State researchers.