sperm capacitation

id: GO:0048240
name: sperm capacitation
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: A process required for sperm to reach fertilization competence. Sperm undergo an incompletely understood series of morphological and molecular maturational processes, termed capacitation, involving, among other processes, protein tyrosine phosphorylation and increased intracellular calcium.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0003006developmental process involved in reproduction
GO:0048469cell maturation
GO:0048610cellular process involved in reproduction