Fruit fly sperm under study
Submitted by ipsita on Sun, 2006-12-31 00:00
The key to male infertility lies in the 381 proteins that make the sperm, say scientists of the University of Bath. For the first time, they have catalogued the proteins of the sperm of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. This may help explain some of the mysteries of infertility, say the researchers.
The study published online in Nature Genetics on November 12 marks the first characterisation of the protein components of a higher eukaryotic cell
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