The zinc transporter ZIPT-7.1 regulates sperm activation in nematodes

• Yanmei Zhao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yanmei Zhao, Chieh-Hsiang Tan, Amber Krauchunas

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, Institute of Biophysics, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Department of Molecular Biology, Rowan University SOM, Stratford, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Chieh-Hsiang Tan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yanmei Zhao, Chieh-Hsiang Tan, Amber Krauchunas

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Amber Krauchunas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yanmei Zhao, Chieh-Hsiang Tan, Amber Krauchunas

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Andrea Scharf,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Nicholas Dietrich,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Kurt Warnhoff,

  Roles Investigation

  Current address: Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Zhiheng Yuan,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, Institute of Biophysics, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Marina Druzhinina,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Sam Guoping Gu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Long Miao,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, Institute of Biophysics, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Andrew Singson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliation Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Ronald E. Ellis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ellisre@rowan.edu (REE); kornfeld@wustl.edu (KK)

  ¶‡ REE and KK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Rowan University SOM, Stratford, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Kerry Kornfeld

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ellisre@rowan.edu (REE); kornfeld@wustl.edu (KK)

  ¶‡ REE and KK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6042-5241

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