Weirdly shaped mouse sperm can be used to tell species apart
Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - 19:30
in Biology & Nature
Think back to health class and picture a sperm. It's got a smooth rounded head, with a long skinny tail at the end, right? As it turns out, the sperm from different species of animals have different shapes—and, as a new study in the Journal of Mammalogy shows, those shapes can be used to tell apart closely related species.