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Like a powder-coated bee spreading pollen from plant to plant, isopods spread spermatia throughout a tide pool as they travel between seaweed clumps.

From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2022

They do this by inadvertently collecting the algae’s sticky spermatia, its equivalent of pollen, on their bodies and sprinkling it around as they move from frond to frond in search of food and shelter.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2022

Its male gametes, or spermatia, lack flexible flagella to propel them through the water.

From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2022

Earlier studies suggested that the spermatia of Gracilaria gracilis were dispersed by ocean currents, but given their abundance in calm coastal rock pools, Dr. Valero suspected another dispersal mechanism was at play.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2022

Many organs placed at first amongst spermatia have been recognized by M. Tulasne as being themselves susceptible of germination, and consequently ought to take their place among legitimate spores.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)