Studies on the eel sperm flagellum 3. Vibratile motility and rotatory bending

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 246-255

  Woolley, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axoneme; Dynein; Flagellum; Sperm tail

Indexed keywords

DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MOTION; FLAGELLUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VIBRATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; EELS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM TAIL;

ANGUILLIFORMES; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031905571     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1998)39:3<246::AID-CM7>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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