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External mechanical control of the timing of bend initiation in sea urchin sperm flagella
✍ Scribed by Eshel, Dan ;Gibbons, I. R.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 750 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0886-1544
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✦ Synopsis
The movement parameters of a sea urchin sperm flagellum can be manipulated mechanically by applying various modes of periodic vibrations to the sperm head held by suction in the tip of a micropipette. The beat frequency of the flagellum readily synchronizes with the frequency of the externally imposed lateral vibration, and the plane of flagellar bending waves adapts itself to the plane of the pipette vibration (Gibbons et al.,