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How to attract a sperm

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One of the most fundamental questions of fertilization is how do sperm locate eggs? In many animals and lower plant groups, sperm are guided by chemo-attractants released from eggs. In this issue of Nature Cell Biology, Kaupp and colleagues now examine the very early events of this process in the sea urchin Arbacia punctulata.

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Figure 1: Model of the chemotactic responses of sperm to resact.

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    Jackson C. Kirkman-Brown, Keith A. Sutton & Harvey M. Florman

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Kirkman-Brown, J., Sutton, K. & Florman, H. How to attract a sperm. Nat Cell Biol 5, 93–95 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb0203-93

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