ReviewJournal of plant research2017
The tailored sperm cell.
Review in Journal of plant research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Intermediate evolutionary state of motile sperm and pollen tubes in the extant gymnospermProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- CiliaQ: a simple, open-source software for automated quantification of ciliary morphology and fluorescence in 2D, 3D, and 4D images.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2021Article
- Tubulin glycylation controls axonemal dynein activity, flagellar beat, and male fertility.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Methodological considerations for examining the relationship between sperm morphology and motility.Molecular reproduction and development · 2020Review
- The steering gaits of sperm.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
- Coherent directed movement toward food modeled inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- A novel cross-species inhibitor to study the function of CatSper CaBritish journal of pharmacology · 2018Article
- Human sperm steer with second harmonics of the flagellar beat.Nature communications · 2017Article
- A coordinated sequence of distinct flagellar waveforms enables a sharp flagellar turn mediated by squid sperm pH-taxis.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Greetings from the new Editor-in-Chief.Journal of plant research · 2017Article
- "Fusion" in fertilization: interdisciplinary collaboration among plant and animal scientists.Journal of plant research · 2017Article
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Abstract
Sperm are ubiquitous and yet unique. Genes involved in sexual reproduction are more divergent than most genes expressed in non-reproductive tissues. It has been argued that sperm have been altered during evolution more than any somatic cell. Profound variations are found at the level of morphology, motility, search strategy for the egg, and the underlying signalling mechanisms. Sperm evolutionary adaptation may have arisen from sperm competition (sperm from rival males compete within the female's body to fertilize eggs), cryptic female choice (the female's ability to choose among different stored sperm), social cues tuning sperm quality or from the site of fertilization (internal vs. external fertilization), to name a few. Unquestionably, sperm represent an invaluable source for the exploration of biological diversity at the level of signalling, motility, and evolution. Despite the richness in sperm variations, only a few model systems for signalling and motility have been studied in detail. Using fast kinetic techniques, electrophysiological recordings, and optogenetics, the molecular players and the sequence of signalling events of sperm from a few marine invertebrates, mammals, and fish are being elucidated. Furthermore, recent technological advances allow studying sperm motility with unprecedented precision; these studies provide new insights into flagellar motility and navigation in three dimensions (3D). The scope of this review is to highlight variations in motile sperm across species, and discuss the great promise that 3D imaging techniques offer into unravelling sperm mysteries.
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