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TRY-5 is a sperm-activating protease in Caenorhabditis elegans seminal fluid.
PLoS genetics - 1 Nov 2011
Smith Joseph R, Stanfield Gillian M
Abstract excerpt
Seminal fluid proteins have been shown to play important roles in male reproductive success, but the mechanisms for this regulation remain largely unknown. In Caenorhabditis elegans, sperm differentiate from immature spermatids into mature, motile spermatozoa during a process termed sperm activation. For C. elegans males, sperm activation occurs during insemination of the hermaphrodite and is thought to be...
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