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Just keep swimming — sperm exhibit a 2D slither motion

Nature Reviews Urology volume 13, page 3 (2016)Cite this article

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New research published in Nature Communications has shown that human sperm exhibit a distinct 2D 'slither' swimming mode when the entire length of the cell is confined within 1 μm of a surface, which is different from the swimming mode observed in 3D bulk swimming.

David Sinton, corresponding author, told Nature Reviews Urology “We were motivated to investigate the exact form of sperm locomotion at surfaces when observing sperm behaviour in our microchannel-based sperm sorting work.”

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  1. Nosrati, R. et al. Two-dimensional slither swimming of sperm within a micrometre of a surface. Nat. Commun. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9703

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Stone, L. Just keep swimming — sperm exhibit a 2D slither motion. Nat Rev Urol 13, 3 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2015.291

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