ArticleBiophysical journal2014
Evidence for two extremes of ciliary motor response in a single swimming microorganism.
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- Walking is like slithering: A unifying, data-driven view of locomotion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Three-dimensional tracking of the ciliate Tetrahymena reveals the mechanism of ciliary stroke-driven helical swimming.Communications biology · 2021Article
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- Fovea-like Photoreceptor Specializations Underlie Single UV Cone Driven Prey-Capture Behavior in Zebrafish.Neuron · 2020Article
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- Polarity in Ciliate Models: From Cilia to Cell Architecture.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2019Review
- Mobile Diagnostics Based on Motion? A Close Look at Motility Patterns in the Schistosome Life Cycle.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2016Article
- Somersault of Paramecium in extremely confined environments.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- DisAp-dependent striated fiber elongation is required to organize ciliary arrays.The Journal of cell biology · 2014Article
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- Use of a novel cell adhesion method and digital measurement to show stimulus-dependent variation in somatic and oral ciliary beat frequency in Paramecium.The Journal of eukaryotic microbiologyArticle
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Abstract
Because arrays of motile cilia drive fluids for a range of processes, the versatile mechano-chemical mechanism coordinating them has been under scrutiny. The protist Paramecium presents opportunities to compare how groups of cilia perform two distinct functions, swimming propulsion and nutrient uptake. We present how the body cilia responsible for propulsion and the oral-groove cilia responsible for nutrient uptake respond to changes in their mechanical environment accomplished by varying the fluid viscosity over a factor of 7. Analysis with a phenomenological model of trajectories of swimmers made neutrally buoyant with magnetic forces combined with high-speed imaging of ciliary beating reveal that the body cilia exert a nearly constant propulsive force primarily by reducing their beat frequency as viscosity increases. By contrast, the oral-groove cilia beat at a nearly constant frequency. The existence of two extremes of motor response in a unicellular organism prompts unique investigations of factors controlling ciliary beating.
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