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Renaissance in sperm cytoplasmic contribution to infertility

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We thank Drew L. Caswell for the Fig. 1 drawing and Dr David Albertini, Dr Tzviya Zeev Ben, Dr Mingxi Liu, and Dr Chen Chen for reviewing, editing, and commenting on the manuscript.

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TAR is supported by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grant number OHOW-2020-02790 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and Grant number 1R15HD110863-01 from NIH-NICHD.

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    Tomer Avidor-Reiss

  2. Department of Urology, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, 43607, USA

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Avidor-Reiss, T. Renaissance in sperm cytoplasmic contribution to infertility. J Assist Reprod Genet 41, 293–296 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10815-023-02987-6

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