Human sperm steer with second harmonics of the flagellar beat. Saggiorato, G., Alvarez, L., Jikeli, J. F., Kaupp, U. B., Gompper, G., & Elgeti, J. Nature Communications, 8(1):1415, November, 2017.
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The mechanism allowing sperm to steer is not fully understood. The authors find that superposition of two harmonic waves breaks the flagellar beat symmetry temporally rather than spatially, and that this mechanism is enhanced by the sexual hormone progesterone, which changes the motility pattern.
@article{saggiorato_human_2017,
	title = {Human sperm steer with second harmonics of the flagellar beat},
	volume = {8},
	copyright = {2017 The Author(s)},
	issn = {2041-1723},
	url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01462-y},
	doi = {10.1038/s41467-017-01462-y},
	abstract = {The mechanism allowing sperm to steer is not fully understood. The authors find that superposition of two harmonic waves breaks the flagellar beat symmetry temporally rather than spatially, and that this mechanism is enhanced by the sexual hormone progesterone, which changes the motility pattern.},
	language = {En},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2017-11-14},
	journal = {Nature Communications},
	author = {Saggiorato, Guglielmo and Alvarez, Luis and Jikeli, Jan F. and Kaupp, U. Benjamin and Gompper, Gerhard and Elgeti, Jens},
	month = nov,
	year = {2017},
	keywords = {Physics - Biological Physics},
	pages = {1415},
}

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