Lack of NWC protein (c11orf74 homolog) in murine spermatogenesis results in reduced sperm competitiveness and impaired ability to fertilize egg cells in vitro

• Michal Majkowski,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Laboratory of Confocal Microscopy; PORT Polish Centre for Technology Development, Wroclaw, Poland

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Immunology, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland

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• Agnieszka Laszkiewicz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Immunology, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland

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• Lukasz Sniezewski,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Immunology, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland

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• Pawel Grzmil,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Genetics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

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• Bernadetta Pawlicka,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Genetics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

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• Igor Tomczyk,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Genetics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

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• Martyna Michniewicz,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Vivarium, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland

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• Violetta Kapusniak,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Chair of Biostructure and Physiology, Department of Histology and Embryology, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland

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• Sylwia Janik,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Immunology, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland

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• Grzegorz Chodaczek,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Confocal Microscopy, PORT Polish Centre for Technology Development, Wroclaw, Poland

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• Malgorzata Cebrat

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

  * E-mail: cebrat@iitd.pan.wroc.pl

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Immunology, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4544-3289

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