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. 2014 May 27;3:e02403. doi: 10.7554/eLife.02403

Video 3. Human sperm cells swimming in a high-viscosity fluid (20 mPa·s) near the wall of a planar channel.

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DOI: 10.7554/eLife.02403.006

The video shows that, at very high viscosity, the chiral beat component becomes considerably weaker for there now exist instances where the flagellum appears as an almost straight line, indicating that the beat pattern approaches the shape of a planar rotating wave. Scale bar 20 μm.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02403.006