Roundworm study reveals essential genes for sperm and egg cell formation

The common roundworm has helped Monash University researchers unlock new information about fertility and genes. Professor Roger Pocock of Monash University's Biomedicine Discovery Institute has led a team which has found new and very specific genes, in the worms, which help grow 'germ' cells, or germination cells. These, depending on specific genes, become either sperm cells or egg cells.