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SUBMITTER: Panzica MT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5551714 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Panzica Michelle T MT Marin Harold C HC Reymann Anne-Cecile AC McNally Francis J FJ
The Journal of cell biology 20170621 8
Fertilization occurs during female meiosis in most animals, which raises the question of what prevents the sperm DNA from interacting with the meiotic spindle. In this study, we find that <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> sperm DNA stays in a fixed position at the opposite end of the embryo from the meiotic spindle while yolk granules are transported throughout the embryo by kinesin-1. In the absence of F-actin, the sperm DNA, centrioles, and organelles were transported as a unit with the yolk granu ...[more]