Phagocytosis of spermatozoa by epithelial cells of the female reproductive tract has been described in various vertebrate taxa, including mammals (Eisenbach, 2003 and Suarez and Pacey, 2006), birds (Koyanagi and Nishiyama, 1981), amphibians (Sever and Brunette, 1993) and reptiles (Sever and Hopkins, 2004).
Rome, Italy (2014 - present) Andrea Faustini (born 17 June 1994) is an Italian pop singer and the finalist of the eleventh UK series of The X Factor (2014). After quitting the Sapienza University of Rome, he decided to move to the UK to audition for the show. He reached the final, but finished in third place of the competition.
On Leon Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria. Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was the prototype of the Renaissance universal man, combining the vocations of humanist, athlete, engineer, architect, courtier, musician, and mathematician. A clear synthesis of so many skills is to be found in De re aedificatoria (1452), a work which became the basic text of Renaissance architecture. Alberti blends insights gained from long study of classical sources and models, such as Vitruvius, with an innovative architectural technique based upon mathematical principles and musical harmonies.