Taste-blind mice make tangled sperm.

• Autores: Veronique Greenwood
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 309, Nº. 4, 2013, págs. 23-23
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses a report published in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA," by researcher Bedrich Mosinger and team on the role of genes for proteins related to taste and smell receptors on sperm development in mice, finding that silencing of taste protein genes led to abnormal sperm heads and tails. Included are comments by researcher Yehuda Ben-Shahar about the environmental sensing functions of sensory receptors in unusual body locations such as the kidneys.