ArticlePloS one2021
The bank of swimming organisms at the micron scale (BOSO-Micro).
Article in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed.
- Energy Allocation Explains How Protozoan Phenotypic Traits Change in Response to Temperature and Resource Supply.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Article
- The wavelength of the ciliary beat in Chlamydomonas saturates at long ciliary lengths.Biophysical journal · 2025Article
- The fluid dynamics and functional diversity of the flagella of free-living flagellates.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2025Review
- Explicit analysis of magnetotactic bacteria motion reveals the length scaling of magnetic moments.Biophysical journal · 2025Article
- Costs and benefits of phytoplankton motility.ArXiv · 2025Article
- Designing optimal elastic filaments for viscous propulsion.Soft matter · 2025Article
- Functional morphology of gliding motility in benthic diatoms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Learning optimal integration of spatial and temporal information in noisy chemotaxis.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Methods and Measures for Investigating Microscale Motility.Integrative and comparative biology · 2023Review
- Encounter rates prime interactions between microorganisms.Interface focus · 2023Review
- Microswimmers in vortices: dynamics and trapping.Soft matter · 2022Article
- Article
- Predicting the locations of force-generating dyneins in beating cilia and flagella.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Article
- Separation of Heterotrophic MicroalgaeFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Article
- Quantification of Motility inFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Instability caused swimming of ferromagnetic filaments in pulsed field.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Unicellular microscopic organisms living in aqueous environments outnumber all other creatures on Earth. A large proportion of them are able to self-propel in fluids with a vast diversity of swimming gaits and motility patterns. In this paper we present a biophysical survey of the available experimental data produced to date on the characteristics of motile behaviour in unicellular microswimmers. We assemble from the available literature empirical data on the motility of four broad categories of organisms: bacteria (and archaea), flagellated eukaryotes, spermatozoa and ciliates. Whenever possible, we gather the following biological, morphological, kinematic and dynamical parameters: species, geometry and size of the organisms, swimming speeds, actuation frequencies, actuation amplitudes, number of flagella and properties of the surrounding fluid. We then organise the data using the established fluid mechanics principles for propulsion at low Reynolds number. Specifically, we use theoretical biophysical models for the locomotion of cells within the same taxonomic groups of organisms as a means of rationalising the raw material we have assembled, while demonstrating the variability for organisms of different species within the same group. The material gathered in our work is an attempt to summarise the available experimental data in the field, providing a convenient and practical reference point for future studies.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.