ArticlePhysical review letters2018
Time Irreversibility and Criticality in the Motility of a Flagellate Microorganism.
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Abstract
Active living organisms exhibit behavioral variability, partitioning between fast and slow dynamics. Such variability may be key to generating rapid responses in a heterogeneous, unpredictable environment wherein cellular activity effects continual exchanges of energy fluxes. We demonstrate a novel, noninvasive strategy for revealing nonequilibrium control of swimming-specifically, in an octoflagellate microalga. These organisms exhibit surprising features of flagellar excitability and mechanosensitivity, which characterize a novel, time-irreversible "run-stop-shock" motility comprising forward runs, knee-jerk shocks with dramatic beat reversal, and long stops during which cells are quiescent yet continue to exhibit submicron flagellar vibrations. Entropy production, associated with flux cycles arising in a reaction graph representation of the gait-switching dynamics, provides a direct measure of detailed balance violation in this primitive alga.
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