Recently, Emma Lavaut and her colleagues from Sorbonne University and Universidad Austral de Chile found that a species of red seaweed, Gracilaria gracilis, uses the isopod crustacean Idotea balthica ...

During mammalian reproduction, millions of sperm undertake a journey that only one will finish. This journey to fertilization has been commonly viewed as a race: a sea of sperm competing to get to the ...

Ascidian fertilization has long served as a tractable model for understanding fundamental mechanisms of gamete recognition, binding and fusion in chordates. Spermatozoa released into seawater are ...