ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2020
Flagellar kinematics reveals the role of environment in shaping sperm motility.
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- 3D+t human sperm flagellum centerline dataset.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Quantification of flagellar gait changes with combined shape mode analysis and swimming simulations.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2025Article
- Swimming by Spinning: Spinning-Top Type Rotations Regularize Sperm Swimming Into Persistently Progressive Paths in 3D.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Robust undulatory locomotion through neuromechanical adjustments in a dissipative medium.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- Sperm quality analyzer: A portable LED array microscope with dark-field imaging.Bioengineering & translational medicine · 2024Article
- Selenium efficiency in protecting sperm quality and testicular parameters of South African indigenous Zulu rams exposed to heat stress.Tropical animal health and production · 2024Article
- Effect of fluid elasticity on the emergence of oscillations in an active elastic filament.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
- The reaction-diffusion basis of animated patterns in eukaryotic flagella.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Frequency-dependent viscosity of salmon ovarian fluid has biophysical implications for sperm-egg interactions.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- Semen rheology and its relation to male infertility.Interface focus · 2022Review
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- Modelling Motility: The Mathematics of Spermatozoa.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Swimming spermatozoa from diverse organisms often have very similar morphologies, yet different motilities as a result of differences in the flagellar waveforms used for propulsion. The origin of these differences has remained largely unknown. Using high-speed video microscopy and mathematical analysis of flagellar shape dynamics, we quantitatively compare sperm flagellar waveforms from marine invertebrates to humans by means of a novel phylokinematic tree. This new approach revealed that genetically dissimilar sperm can exhibit strikingly similar flagellar waveforms and identifies two dominant flagellar waveforms among the deuterostomes studied here, corresponding to internal and external fertilizers. The phylokinematic tree shows marked discordance from the phylogenetic tree, indicating that physical properties of the fluid environment, more than genetic relatedness, act as an important selective pressure in shaping the evolution of sperm motility. More broadly, this work provides a physical axis to complement morphological and genetic studies to understand evolutionary relationships.
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