sperm-

or sperma-

pref.

Variants of spermi-.

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In culture dishes, even headless sperm- a tiny fraction of normal sperm populations- oriented against the fluid flow.

Sperm fight flow to reach egg: upstream swim gets male gametes to egg in men, mice

They took a freshly fertilized, single-cell mouse embryo containing sperm- and egg-contributed bundles of DNA that had not yet had time to fuse into a complete nucleus within the cell.

A genetic gender gap

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