A gear unit is proposed comprising a cylindrical worm (2, 22, 202) driven to rotation about a geometric worm axis (3, 23, 203), and a cross-worm gear (5, 35, 45, 55, 65, 105, 205) which has a
helical toothing (7, 37) on one face (6, 36). The worm (2, 22, 202) meshes with at least one thread in the toothing of the cross-worm gear (5, 35, 45, 55, 65, 105, 205) and thereby drives the cross-worm gear (5, 35, 45, 55, 65, 105, 205) to rotation about a geometric cross-worm gear axis (8, 68, 108, 208). The geometric worm axis (3, 23, 203) and the geometric worm gear axis (8, 68, 108, 208) are
skew geometric straight lines relative to each other. Each tooth of the
helical gearing (7) of the worm gear (5, 35, 45, 55, 65, 105, 205) has a convex tooth flank (10) and a concave tooth flank (11).The thread (4) of the worm (2, 22, 202) has an asymmetrical profile with a first thread flank (4a, 204a) and a second thread flank (4b, 204b). The first
pressure angle α between the convex tooth flank (10) and the first thread flank (4a, 204a) is smaller than the second
pressure angle α between the concave tooth flank (11) and the second thread flank (4b, 204b).