2022/02/03
Keio University
University of Tsukuba
A research group, including visiting researcher Kenta Sugiura (at the time) and Associate Professor Midori Matsumoto of the Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, and Assistant Professor Kogiku Shiba and Professor Kazuo Inaba of the Shimoda Marine Research Center, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, has succeeded for the first time in the world in filming the detailed movements of tardigrade sperm, revealing the effects of their unique morphology on swimming.
The results of this research were published in "BMC Zoology" on January 30, 2022.
Please see below for the full press release.