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Search for a small egg by spermatozoa in restricted geometries

The search by swimmers for a small target in a bounded domain is ubiquitous in cellular biology, where a prominent case is that of the search by spermatozoa for an egg in the uterus. This is one of the severest selection processes in animal reproduction. We present here a mathematical model of the s...

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Autores principales: Yang, J., Kupka, I., Schuss, Z., Holcman, D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4940446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26707857
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00285-015-0955-3