ReviewFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2021
Modelling Motility: The Mathematics of Spermatozoa.
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- Elucidating motion patterns in sperm cell motion with dynamic mode decomposition.Journal of biological physics · 2026Article
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- Mito-TEMPO improves preservation of cooled canine semen over a 72-hour period of storage.Iranian journal of veterinary research · 2026Article
- The Known and Unknown About Female Reproductive Tract Mucus Rheological Properties.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025Review
- Robust undulatory locomotion through neuromechanical adjustments in a dissipative medium.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- Exploring sperm cell motion dynamics: Insights from genetic algorithm-based analysis.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2024Article
- Self-organized vortex phases and hydrodynamic interactions in Bos taurus sperm cells.Physical review. E · 2024Article
- Construction of intelligent moving micro/nanomotors and their applications in biosensing and disease treatment.Theranostics · 2023Review
- A novel Human Conception Optimizer for solving optimization problems.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
In one of the first examples of how mechanics can inform axonemal mechanism, Machin's study in the 1950s highlighted that observations of sperm motility cannot be explained by molecular motors in the cell membrane, but would instead require motors distributed along the flagellum. Ever since, mechanics and hydrodynamics have been recognised as important in explaining the dynamics, regulation, and guidance of sperm. More recently, the digitisation of sperm videomicroscopy, coupled with numerous modelling and methodological advances, has been bringing forth a new era of scientific discovery in this field. In this review, we survey these advances before highlighting the opportunities that have been generated for both recent research and the development of further open questions, in terms of the detailed characterisation of the sperm flagellum beat and its mechanics, together with the associated impact on cell behaviour. In particular, diverse examples are explored within this theme, ranging from how collective behaviours emerge from individual cell responses, including how these responses are impacted by the local microenvironment, to the integration of separate advances in the fields of flagellar analysis and flagellar mechanics.
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