Spermidine promotes mating and fertilization efficiency in model organisms

Cell Cycle

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 346-352

  Bauer, Maria Anna ^a   Carmona Gutiérrez, Didac ^a   Ruckenstuhl, Christoph ^a   Reisenbichler, Angela ^a   Megalou, Evgenia V ^b   Eisenberg, Tobias ^a   Magnes, Christoph ^c,d   Jungwirth, Helmut ^a   Sinner, Frank M ^c,d   Pieber, Thomas R ^c,d   Fröhlich, Kai Uwe ^a   Kroemer, Guido ^e,f,g,h   Tavernarakis, Nektarios ^b   Madeo, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^f CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DES CORDELIERS   (France)

^g HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^h UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Autophagy; Caenorhabditis elegans; Fertilization; Mating; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Sexual reproduction; Shmoo; Spermidine

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; SPERMIDINE;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL FUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MATING; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; REPRODUCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHMOO; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; YEAST;

EID: 84873616490     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.23199     Document Type: Article

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