Erratum: How Do Sperm Get to the Egg? Bioengineering Expertise Needed! (Experimental Mechanics, 10.1007/s11340-009-9312-z);How Do Sperm Get to the Egg? Bioengineering Expertise Needed!

Experimental Mechanics

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1267-1274

  Suarez, S S ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Cervix; Fertilization; Flagellum; Oviduct; Sperm; Uterus

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; MAMMALS; PROTEINS;

CERVIX; FERTILIZATION; FLAGELLUM; OVIDUCT; SPERM; UTERUS;

MUTAGENESIS;

EID: 78650209819     PISSN: 00144851     EISSN: 17412765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11340-010-9446-z     Document Type: Erratum

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