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Adaptive phototaxis of Chlamydomonas and the evolutionary transition to multicellularity in Volvocine green algae
K. C. Leptos, M. Chioccioli, S. Furlan +2
A fundamental issue in biology is the nature of evolutionary transitions from unicellular to multicellular organisms. Volvocine algae are models for this transition, as they span f…
The fluid dynamics of collective vortex structures of plant-animal worms
George T. Fortune, Alan Worley, Ana B. Sendova-Franks +4
Circular milling, a stunning manifestation of collective motion, is found across the natural world, from fish shoals to army ants. It has been observed recently that the plant-anim…
Aerotaxis in the Closest Relatives of Animals
Julius B. Kirkegaard, Ambre Bouillant, Alan O. Marron +2
As the closest unicellular relatives of animals, choanoflagellates serve as useful model organisms for understanding the evolution of animal multicellularity. An important factor i…
Lag, lock, sync, slip: the many "phases" of coupled flagella
Kirsty Y. Wan, Kyriacos C. Leptos, Raymond E. Goldstein
In a multitude of life's processes, cilia and flagella are found indispensable. Recently, the biflagellated chlorophyte alga Chlamydomonas has become a model organism for the study…
Antiphase Synchronization in a Flagellar-Dominance Mutant of Chlamydomonas
Kyriacos C. Leptos, Kirsty Y. Wan, Marco Polin +3
Groups of beating flagella or cilia often synchronize so that neighboring filaments have identical frequencies and phases. A prime example is provided by the unicellular biflagella…
Mixing by Swimming Algae
Jeffrey S. Guasto, Kyriacos C. Leptos, J. P. Gollub +2
In this fluid dynamics video, we demonstrate the microscale mixing enhancement of passive tracer particles in suspensions of swimming microalgae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. These b…