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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Geometrical preference of anchoring sites in the unicellular organism

Syun Echigoya, Takuya Ohmura, Katsuhiko Sato, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Yukinori Nishigami

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Geometrical preference of anchoring sites in the unicellular organismProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Syun EchigoyaResearch Center of Mathematics for Social Creativity, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 001-0020, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-2946-3987
Takuya OhmuraResearch Center of Mathematics for Social Creativity, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 001-0020, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-8022-2946
Katsuhiko SatoProgram of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Science, Academic Assembly, University of Toyama, Toyama 930-8555, Japan.
Toshiyuki NakagakiResearch Center of Mathematics for Social Creativity, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 001-0020, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-3446-4888
Yukinori NishigamiResearch Center of Mathematics for Social Creativity, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 001-0020, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-9996-8606

Funding

Establishment of University Fellowships towards the Creation of Science Technology Innovation JPMJFS2101Japan Science Society (JSS) 2021-6029MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) JP21H05303MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) JP21H05308MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) JP21H05310MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) JP23H04300MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) JP24K09388MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) JP24K23220MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) JP25K17535Promotion Project for Young Investigators in Hokkaido University NoneSumitomo Foundation (SF) 2300464
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organisms often inhabit environments comprising complex structures across various scales. Animals rely on visual information from surrounding geometrical structures for navigation. Even at the microscale, various microsediments form complex structures in microbial habitats. The movement of microorganisms is passively affected by collisions and hydrodynamic interactions with surrounding structures. However, the influence of microenvironmental geometry on behavioral changes of unicellular organisms that lack visual perception remains unclear. Here, we developed geometrically structured chambers to investigate anchoring site preferences in the swimming ciliate

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CiliophoraAnimalsCalciumHydrodynamicsMovementCalciumanchoring behaviorcell motilityenvironmental geometrynavigationStentor

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PMID41739554
PMCPMC12956858

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