A Heterogeneous Mixture of F-Series Prostaglandins Promotes Sperm Guidance in the Caenorhabditis elegans Reproductive Tract

Hieu D. Hoang; Jeevan K. Prasain; Dixon Dorand; Michael A. Miller

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003271

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A Heterogeneous Mixture of F-Series Prostaglandins Promotes Sperm Guidance in the Caenorhabditis elegans Reproductive Tract

Hieu D. Hoang,

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
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Jeevan K. Prasain,

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
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Dixon Dorand,

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
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Michael A. Miller

* E-mail: mamiller@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
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A Heterogeneous Mixture of F-Series Prostaglandins Promotes Sperm Guidance in the Caenorhabditis elegans Reproductive Tract

Hieu D. Hoang,
Jeevan K. Prasain,
Dixon Dorand,
Michael A. Miller

Published: January 31, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003271

About the Authors

Hieu D. Hoang

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jeevan K. Prasain

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Dixon Dorand

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Michael A. Miller

* E-mail: mamiller@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAM JKP. Performed the experiments: HDH DD JKP. Analyzed the data: HDH JKP MAM. Wrote the paper: MAM HDH.

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