Weakly electric fish (IMAGE)

Michigan State University

Weakly electric fish

Caption

The sperm of the mormyrid wealy electric fish is the only known vertebrate species that lacks flagellum. Panel A shows a light microscope image of a sperm sample: the sperm are completely immotile. Panel B shows a scanning electron microscope image of a single sperm cell.

Credit

Jason Gallant, Michigan State University

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