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Measuring Sperm Guidance and Motility within the Caenorhabditis elegans Hermaphrodite Reproductive Tract
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Ubiquitin tag for sperm mitochondria
P Sutovsky1, R D Moreno, J Ramalho-Santos
1Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, and Department of Cell-Developmental Biology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Beaverton 97006, USA.
Nature
|December 10, 1999
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