The stochastic dance of circling sperm cells: Sperm Chemotaxis in the plane

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Friedrich, B M ^a   Julicher F ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; MAMMALS; PROGRAMMING THEORY;

CHEMOATTRACTANT; COARSE-GRAINED; CONCENTRATION FIELDS; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIONS; EXPERIMENTAL SET-UP; MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE; SEA URCHINS; SINGLE CELLS; SPERM CELLS; STOCHASTIC PROPERTIES; TWO DIMENSIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 59349120130     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/12/123025     Document Type: Article

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