ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
Collective dynamics of sperm cells.
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- Self-organized vortex phases and hydrodynamic interactions in Bos taurus sperm cells.Physical review. E · 2024Article
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- Conservation Biology and Reproduction in a Time of Developmental Plasticity.Biomolecules · 2022Review
- Biological benefits of collective swimming of sperm in a viscoelastic fluid.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Article
- The social shape of sperm: using an integrative machine-learning approach to examine sperm ultrastructure and collective motility.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
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- Modelling Motility: The Mathematics of Spermatozoa.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Review
- Multi-scale analysis and modelling of collective migration in biological systems.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Postcopulatory sexual selection is associated with sperm aggregate quality inBehavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
While only a single sperm may fertilize the egg, getting to the egg can be facilitated, and possibly enhanced, by sperm group dynamics. Examples range from the trains formed by wood mouse sperm to the bundles exhibited by echidna sperm. In addition, observations of wave-like patterns exhibited by ram semen are used to score prospective sample fertility for artificial insemination in agriculture. In this review, we discuss these experimental observations of collective dynamics, as well as describe recent mechanistic models that link the motion of individual sperm cells and their flagella to observed collective dynamics. Establishing this link in models involves negotiating the disparate time- and length scales involved, typically separated by a factor of 1000, to capture the dynamics at the greatest length scales affected by mechanisms at the shortest time scales. Finally, we provide some outlook on the subject, in particular, the open questions regarding how collective dynamics impacts fertility. This article is part of the theme issue 'Multi-scale analysis and modelling of collective migration in biological systems'.
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