Scientific Source #44 – Peer-Reviewed Article
“Fertilization is the culminating event in sexual reproduction and requires the recognition and fusion of the haploid sperm and egg to form a new diploid organism”44
44Bianchi, E. & Wright, G.J., Cross-species fertilization: the hamster egg receptor, Juno, binds the human sperm ligand, Izumo1, Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2015, 370(1661):20140101, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4275915/pdf/rstb20140101.pdf.