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Cross section through a seminiferous tubule showing the developing sperm with their tails pointing into the lumen of the tubule. The nuclei are stained blue with DAPI and mitochondria red with mitotracker. Sperm have a large number of mitochondria to power their swim towards the egg. The image has been volume rendered using Imaris. Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp) Cell Image Library (2021). CIL:38905, sperm. In Cell Image Library. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0ZW1JTV
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ark:/20775/bb9494659s
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Spermatogenesis Sperm Male germ cell nucleus Mitochondrion Seminiferous tubule
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