Volume 28 Issue 9, September 2018

The Secret Life of Sperm comprises of 20 musical notes that flow and entwine to tell the charming and enigmatic story of spermatogenesis. Excerpted from One Thousand and One Nights by Rimsky-Korsakov, the 20 musical notes in the illustration represent the 20 stages of development in mouse spermatogenic cells. To unravel the mystery of spermatogenesis in mice, see page 879-896 by Yao Chen et al. for details.