Flexural Rigidity of Echinoderm Sperm Flagella

Cell Structure and Function

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 349-362

  Hiramoto, Yukio ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

beating plane; doublet microtubules; dynein cross bridge; flagellar axoneme; stiffness; viscous resistance

Indexed keywords

9 (2 HYDROXY 3 NONYL)ADENINE; SEA WATER; VANADIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AXONEME; ECHINODERM; FLAGELLUM; MALE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; WAVEFORM;

ADENINE; ANIMAL; DYNEIN ATPASE; MALE; MOVEMENT; OCTOXYNOL; PLIABILITY; SEA URCHINS; SPERM TAIL; TRYPSIN; VANADATES; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0028558972     PISSN: 03867196     EISSN: 13473700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1247/csf.19.349     Document Type: Article

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