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Is This a Weird Cell?
The nucleus of the sperm is longer than the flagellum like the tail, which is great. So it starts off small, gets long and then goes back to short - a really interesting development. The species could be a suitable model for studying the mechanisms involved in regulation of axoneme length. It could be used as a comparative model for Celia and flagella abnormalities leading to illness.