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pith:DZKKHNSQ

pith:2018:DZKKHNSQQWHL6HKJ7HBSEBWB3V
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Strictures of the female reproductive tract impose fierce competition to select for highly motile sperm

Alireza Abbaspourrad, Gianpiero D.Palermo, Meisam Zaferani

arxiv:1808.07537 v1 · 2018-08-22 · physics.bio-ph

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\pithnumber{DZKKHNSQQWHL6HKJ7HBSEBWB3V}

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4 Citations open
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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.
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First computed 2026-05-18T00:07:27.037188Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1e54a3b650858ebf1d49f9c32206c1dd6e2c3ed5d7fc29f68f10dee429041eee

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.07537 · arxiv_version: 1808.07537v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.07537 · pith_short_12: DZKKHNSQQWHL · pith_short_16: DZKKHNSQQWHL6HKJ · pith_short_8: DZKKHNSQ
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DZKKHNSQQWHL6HKJ7HBSEBWB3V \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 1e54a3b650858ebf1d49f9c32206c1dd6e2c3ed5d7fc29f68f10dee429041eee
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "12d011492821de0c48468340764546710d4be1a2196ba32f18b33038b180eee2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-22T19:34:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "66d58bce259aff4f34fddc3ebf8b2980bdd3dd5f9c84f2af9a92bbb7afe09aa5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.07537",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}