Reproductive maturation and function are under the influence of a wide variety of regulatory signals, which include nutritional and metabolic cues, as well as hormones that control energy homeostasis.

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...

Diabetes can have an adverse effect on men's reproduction function, as it causes DNA damage in sperm. "Sperm RNA was significantly altered, and many of the changes we observed are in RNA transcripts ...