#  The Hoekstra Lab Discovers Gene for Faster and More Virile Sperm in Promiscuous Mice 

 





October 18, 2016

 

 

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 **Hopi Hoekstra** and lab members, **Heidi Fisher** (former postdoc), **Emily Jacobs-Palmer** (former graduate student) and **Jean-Marc Lassance's** (research associate) new study in [Nature Communcations](https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13652), compares two closely related species, the deer mouse (*peromyscus maniculatus*) and the oldfield mouse (*P. polionotus*), and finds the promiscuous deer mouse has a gene that makes their sperm faster and more virile. You can read more about the study [here](http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/promiscuous-mice-have-gene-faster-sperm).



 

 

 



 

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