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vertical axis windmills and sperm pelotons

Posted by Roger Critchlow-2 on Feb 12, 2010; 4:38pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/vertical-axis-windmills-and-sperm-pelotons-tp4562087.html

The fish schooling vertical axis windmill grouping paper is out on arxiv.org

  http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2250

The other paper from Nature

  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7282/abs/nature08736.html

titled "Competition drives cooperation among closely related sperm of deer mice" notes that "By forming cooperative groups, sperm can increase their swimming velocity and thereby gain an advantage in intermale sperm competition" which only leaves the question of how the sperm identify their brothers.

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