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.

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