The ancient and helical architecture of Elasmobranchii’s spermatozoa enables progressive motility in viscous environments

Sergii Boryshpolets; Borys Dzyuba; Pablo García-Salinas; Hermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha; Victor Gallego; Anatoliy Sotnikov; Juan F. Asturiano

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0319354

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The ancient and helical architecture of Elasmobranchii’s spermatozoa enables progressive motility in viscous environments

Sergii Boryshpolets ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* sboryshpolets@frov.jcu.cz

Affiliation Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Vodňany, Czech Republic

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7346-8734

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Borys Dzyuba,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Vodňany, Czech Republic
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Pablo García-Salinas,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Grupo de Acuicultura y Biodiversidad, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología Animal, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
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Hermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology & Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Victor Gallego,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Grupo de Acuicultura y Biodiversidad, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología Animal, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
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Anatoliy Sotnikov,

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Vodňany, Czech Republic
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Juan F. Asturiano

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Grupo de Acuicultura y Biodiversidad, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología Animal, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
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The ancient and helical architecture of Elasmobranchii’s spermatozoa enables progressive motility in viscous environments

Sergii Boryshpolets,
Borys Dzyuba,
Pablo García-Salinas,
Hermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha,
Victor Gallego,
Anatoliy Sotnikov,
Juan F. Asturiano

Published: February 25, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319354

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