Dynamics of filaments: Modelling the dynamics of driven microfilaments

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1437, 2003, Pages 1543-1550

  Lowe, Christopher P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Filaments; Motility; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

MODELING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0141703209     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1340     Document Type: Conference Paper

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