ArticleNature microbiology2019
A natural toroidal microswimmer with a rotary eukaryotic flagellum.
Article in Nature microbiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Dynamics of photonic toroidal vortices mediated by orbital angular momenta.Science advances · 2025Article
- The fluid dynamics and functional diversity of the flagella of free-living flagellates.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2025Review
- Hybrid electromagnetic toroidal vortices.Science advances · 2025Article
- Differential Adjuvant Activity by Flagellins fromVaccines · 2024Article
- Minimum entropy production by microswimmers with internal dissipation.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Experimental evidence for enzymatic cell wall dissolution in a microbial protoplast feeder (Orciraptor agilis, Viridiraptoridae).BMC biology · 2022Article
- Different serotypes of Escherichia coli flagellin exert identical adjuvant effects.BMC veterinary research · 2022Article
- Phylogenetic reconstruction and evolution of the Rab GTPase gene family in Amoebozoa.Small GTPases · 2022Article
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Abstract
We describe Idionectes vortex gen. nov., sp. nov., a unicellular microeukaryote that swims by continuous inversion of its surface, similar to a vortex ring. This previously unreported mode of motility approximates a hypothetical concept called the 'toroidal swimmer', in which a doughnut-shaped object rotates around its circular axis and travels in the opposite direction to its outer surface motion. During swimming, the flagellum of Idionectes rotates relative to its cell body, which is normally a hallmark of prokaryotic rather than eukaryotic flagella.
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