Disentangling the spermatozoon’s transcriptome

Excerpt

Woody Allen’s cult film classic, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Sex,” iconizes the fate of epididymal sperm, while awaiting the moment of ejaculation. As his angst accumulates, while fighting to get into a better position (first in, first in the egg race), he recognizes that unlike real estate, location is not all that matters when it comes to gaining access to the oocyte’s investments lurking in the hollows of the distal fallopian tube. Instead, in typical Allenesque form, the litany of worries includes his dwindling fuel supply, how fast he will swim, and how will he beat his competitors in the race to the finish line. …