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Nature Cell Biology  5, 93 - 96 (2003)
doi:10.1038/ncb0203-102

How to attract a sperm

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

Harvey M. Florman, Jackson C. Kirkman-Brown and Keith A. Sutton are in the Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
harvey.florman@umassmed.edu

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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The signal flow and motor response controling chemotaxis of sea urchin sperm
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