“…Substances such as 1‐2 propylene glycol (PG) and methanol (MetOH) are commonly used as cryoprotectants to freeze marine organisms' gametes. These substances showed good results in the male gametes freezing of fish (Gwo, Weng, Fan & Lee ; Marco‐Jiménez, Garzón, Peñaranda, Pérez, Viudes‐de‐Castro, Vicente, Jover & Asturiano ; Tian, Chen, Ji, Zhai, Sun, Chen & Su ), oysters (Paniagua‐Chavez & Tiersch ; Dong, Huang, Eudeline & Tiersch ; Dong, Huang, Eudeline, Allen & Tiersch ; Kawamoto, Narita, Isowa, Aoki, Hayashi, Komaru & Ohta ; Adams, Smith, Taylor, Tervit & McGowan ) and mussels (Di Matteo, Langellotti, Masullo & Sansone ), but at this moment the effects of these substances on the physiological parameters of Nodipecten nodosus spermatozoa are still unknown.…”