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How to attract sperm
L-tryptophan is necessary and sufficient to promote recruitment of sperm to the surface of eggs in red abalone.
Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020501-02
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Chemical signals play a crucial role in the communication between sperm and egg that facilitates fertilization, but the identity of the signaling molecules involved remains unclear. In May 15 Journal of Experimental Biology, Jeffrey Riffell and colleagues from University of California, Los Angeles, show that the amino acid L-tryptophan is necessary and sufficient to promote recruitment of sperm to the surface of eggs in red abalone (Haliotis rufescens).
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