Find and fuse: Unsolved mysteries in sperm-egg recognition.
Sexual reproduction is such a successful way of creating progeny with subtle genetic variations that the vast majority of eukaryotic species use it. In mammals, it involves the formation of highly specialised cells: the sperm in males and the egg in females, each carrying the genetic inheritance of...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2020-11-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000953 |