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Article Dans Une Revue Communicative and Integrative Biology Année : 2015

Why so many sperm cells?

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A key limiting step in fertility is the search for the oocyte by spermatozoa. Initially, there are tens of millions of sperm cells, but a single one will make it to the oocyte. This may be one of the most severe selection processes designed by evolution, whose role is yet to be understood. Why such a huge redundancy is required and what does that mean for the search process? we discuss here these questions and consequently new lines of interdisciplinary research needed to find possible answers.

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hal-02626818 , version 1 (26-05-2020)

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Karine Reynaud, Zeev Schuss, Nathalie Rouach, David Holcman. Why so many sperm cells?. Communicative and Integrative Biology, 2015, 8 (3), pp.e1017156. ⟨10.1080/19420889.2015.1017156⟩. ⟨hal-02626818⟩
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