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Sperm Capacitation [1]

By: Koczwara, Katherine Keywords: Sperm [2]

The male body, followed by male reproductive organs from which the sperm originates, is depicted from top to bottom at the left. Under the male reproductive organs is a diagram of a single sperm. To the right of the sperm diagram, the physiological and morphological changes a sperm undergoes to fertilize an egg are depicted from left to right. Each change is associated with a light pink rectangle background. Each light pink rectangle corresponds to the location of the sperm within the female reproductive organs, which is depicted above it. In addition, a molecular view of each change is directly under each light pink rectangle.
It is important to note the background color of the illustration. A blue to purple gradient depicts the two phases of sperm capacitation: sperm capacitation is in blue, and the acrosome reaction is in purple. It is still unclear where the two phases differentiate and thus a gradient is used as opposed to two distinct colors. The title location for each phase designates the approximate start of each phase.

Subject

Spermatozoa [3] Sperm [4] Male gametes [5] Sperm Capacitation [6]

Topic

Theories [7] Processes [8]

Publisher

Arizona State University. School of Life Sciences. Center for Biology and Society. Embryo Project Encyclopedia.

Rights

Copyright Arizona Board of Regents Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Format

Graphics [9]

Last Modified

Monday, September 23, 2019 - 20:58

DC Date Accessioned

Monday, September 23, 2019 - 20:47

DC Date Available

Monday, September 23, 2019 - 20:47

DC Date Created

2019-09-23

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[2] https://embryo.asu.edu/keywords/sperm
[3] https://embryo.asu.edu/library-congress-subject-headings/spermatozoa
[4] https://embryo.asu.edu/library-congress-subject-headings/sperm
[5] https://embryo.asu.edu/library-congress-subject-headings/male-gametes
[6] https://embryo.asu.edu/medical-subject-headings/sperm-capacitation
[7] https://embryo.asu.edu/topics/theories
[8] https://embryo.asu.edu/topics/processes
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