The prevailing assumption has been that the human spermatozoon provides only one centriole to the zygote: the proximal centriole, with a canonical, cylinder-like shape. This overly simplistic view has ...

2016). In interphase, one of the centrioles can serve as basal body for a primary cilium while the pericentriolar material is a principal site for cytoplasmic microtubule nucleation and organization.