Journal
REPRODUCTION FERTILITY AND DEVELOPMENT
Volume 21, Issue 8, Pages 1002-1007Publisher
CSIRO PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1071/RD09091
Keywords
epididymis; monotreme; proteome; sperm maturation
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- University of Newcastle Research
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The platypus epididymal proteome is being studied because epididymal proteins are essential for male fertility in mammals and it is considered that knowledge of the epididymal proteome in an early mammal would be informative in assessing the convergence and divergence of proteins that are important in the function of the mammalian epididymis. Few of the epididymal proteins that have been identified in eutherian mammals were found in platypus caudal epididymal fluid, and the major epididymal proteins in the platypus (PXN-FBPL, SPARC and E-OR20) have never been identified in the epididymis of any other mammal.
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