All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 November Temperature and climate found to affect contents of sperm cells Temperature and climate found to affect contents of sperm cells 11/11/2020 | 2 MINS Researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology have found that sperm may be more vulnerable to environmental stress than previously thought. The scientists studied the blue mussel, which spawns its sperm and eggs directly into the ocean, to test the impact of rising ocean temperatures on sperm cells. The findings have been published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. They found the temperature of the external environment, through which sperm from externally fertilising species swim on their journey to fertilise an egg, had a significant effect on the genetic contents of sperm cells. Lead author of the study, Dr Rowan Lymbery from the LIT Centre for Evolutionary Biology, said it was generally assumed that sperm were simple DNA-delivery machines, and that the contents of their cells remained the same regardless of the environment they encountered on their way to fert
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 November Temperature and climate found to affect contents of sperm cells Temperature and climate found to affect contents of sperm cells 11/11/2020 | 2 MINS Researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology have found that sperm may be more vulnerable to environmental stress than previously thought.
The scientists studied the blue mussel, which spawns its sperm and eggs directly into the ocean, to test the impact of rising ocean temperatures on sperm cells.
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The findings have been published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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They found the temperature of the external environment, through which sperm from externally fertilising species swim on their journey to fertilise an egg, had a significant effect on the genetic contents of sperm cells.
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Lead author of the study, Dr Rowan Lymbery from the LIT Centre for Evolutionary Biology, said it was generally assumed that sperm were simple DNA-delivery machines, and that the contents of their cells remained the same regardless of the environment they encountered on their way to fert
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