Bull Sperm Get by With a Little Help From Their Friends | Science
Traveling together helps the sperm navigate a tricky, sticky migration through a cow's reproductive tract
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Traveling together helps the sperm navigate a tricky, sticky migration through a cow's reproductive tract
Syracuse University professors find that female proteins bind to the sperm and these proteins constitute 20% of the sperm’s mass, making the sperm more viable and partially female.
Long considered exclusively male, it turns out that sperm become partly female after mating, according to a new study of fruit flies.The paper, published March 7 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, revealed that by four d