An α‐ L ‐fucosidase potentially involved in fertilization is present on Drosophila spermatozoa surface

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Drosophila is emerging as a model organism to investigate egg fertilization in insects and the possible conservation of molecular mechanisms of gamete interactions demonstrated in higher organisms. This study shows that the spermatozoa of several species of Drosophila belonging to the melanogaster group have a plasma membrane associated alpha-L-fucosidase with features in common with alpha-L-fucosidases from...

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