Swimming ability and flagellar motility of sperm packets of the volvocine green alga Pleodorina starrii

• Azusa Kage ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kage@muroran-it.ac.jp (AK); takayuki.nishizaka@gakushuin.ac.jp (TN)

  Current address: Muroran Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Engineering, Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan

  Affiliation Department of Physics, Gakushuin University, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3069-3162

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• Kohei Takahashi,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hisayoshi Nozaki,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9308-4498

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• Tetsuya Higashiyama,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Shoji A. Baba,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Ochanomizu University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takayuki Nishizaka

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kage@muroran-it.ac.jp (AK); takayuki.nishizaka@gakushuin.ac.jp (TN)

  Affiliation Department of Physics, Gakushuin University, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2902-3903

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