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spermatogenesis

[sper″mah-to-jen´ĕ-sis]

the development of mature spermatozoa from spermatogonia; it includes spermatocytogenesis and spermiogenesis.

sper·ma·to·gen·e·sis

(sper'mă-tō-jen'ĕ-sis),

The entire process by which spermatogonial stem cells divide and differentiate into sperms. The process has three phases: spermatocytogenesis, meiosis, and spermiogenesis.
See also: spermiogenesis, meiosis, spermatocytogenesis.

Synonym(s): spermatogeny

[spermato- + G. genesis, origin]

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spermatogenesis

(spər-măt′ə-jĕn′ĭ-sĭs, spûr′mə-tə-)

Formation and development of spermatozoa by meiosis and spermiogenesis.

sper·mat′o·ge·net′ic (-jə-nĕt′ĭk), sper·mat′o·gen′ic (-jĕn′ĭk) adj.

spermatogenesis

The process of sperm production, which occurs in the testes.

spermatogenesis

Physiology The production of male sex gametes; the maturational changes that transform spermatids into spermatozoa. See Sperm.

sper·ma·to·gen·e·sis

(spĕr'mă-tō-jen'ĕ-sis)

The entire process by which spermatogonial stem cells divide and differentiate into spermatozoa.
See also: spermiogenesis
Synonym(s): spermatocytogenesis.

[spermato- + G. genesis, origin]

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SPERMATOGENESIS

spermatogenesis

(sper?mat-o-jen'e-sis) [? + genesis, generation, birth]

The formation of mature functional spermatozoa. In the process, undifferentiated spermatogonia become primary spermatocytes, each of which divides to form two secondary spermatocytes. Each of these divides to form two spermatids, which transform into functional motile spermatozoa. In the process, the chromosome number is reduced from the diploid to the haploid number.

See: illustration; gametogenesis; maturation; meiosisillustration

spermatogenesis

the form ofMEIOSIS producing male gametes. see GAMETOGENESIS.

Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005

Spermatogenesis

The process by which sperm develop to become mature sperm, capable of fertilizing an ovum.

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Meanwhile, miR-449a, miR-34c-5p and miR-122 could be used as biomarkers of germ cell maturation (Abu-Halima et al., 2014; Munoz et al., 2015), and miR-449a/b/c were essential for normal spermatogenesis and male fertility (Yuan et al., 2015).

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In contrast to primates, for example, marmosets, two or more cellular associations (stages of seminiferous epithelium) were identified from a cross section of the seminiferous tubule [18], because spermatogenesis as in marmoset is asymmetrically distributed, resulting in more than one stage per cross section of seminiferous tubule [20].

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