Sperm chemotaxis, fluid shear, and the evolution of sexual reproduction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 32, 2011, Pages 13200-13205

  Zimmer, Richard K ^a   Riffell, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Invertebrate sperm chemotaxis; Mammalian sperm chemotaxis; Small scale turbulence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL VOLUME; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOPLASM; DYNAMICS; GAMETE; HABITAT; HYDRODYNAMICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SHEAR STRESS; SPERM; SPERM CHEMOTAXIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CALIFORNIA; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; CHEMOTAXIS; ECOSYSTEM; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MOLLUSCA; OVUM; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR STRENGTH; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; TRYPTOPHANASE;

GASTROPODA; HALIOTIS RUFESCENS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80051961198     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1018666108     Document Type: Article

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