Sperm chemotaxis research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology

In collaboration with teams from the University of Washington, UCLA, and ETH Zurich, our recent work on the role of sperm chemotaxis in egg fertilization was recently published in the Journal of Experimental Biology. The paper entitled “Sperm chemotaxis promotes individual fertilization success in sea urchins” used microfluidics to show that chemotaxis enhances a sperm cell’s ability seek out and fertilize egg cells, which is a key step in the reproductive process for marine invertebrates and many other organisms. [Link to JEB Paper]