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Theory of Cell Body Lensing and Phototaxis Sign Reversal in "Eyeless" Mutants of
Sumit Kumar Birwa, Ming Yang, Adriana I. Pesci +1
Phototaxis of many species of green algae relies upon directional sensitivity of their membrane-bound photoreceptors, which arises from the presence of a pigmented "eyespot" behind…
Phototactic Decision-Making by Micro-Algae
Shantanu Raikwar, Adham Al-Kassem, Nir S. Gov +3
We study how simple eukaryotic organisms make decisions in response to competing stimuli in the context of phototaxis by the unicellular alga . While neg…
Photometric Decision-Making During the Dawn Choruses of Cicadas
Rakesh Khanna A., Raymond E. Goldstein, Adriana I. Pesci +1
We report the first quantitative study of the onset of dawn choruses of cicadas in several natural habitats. A time-frequency analysis of the acoustical signals is used to define a…
How do Cicadas Emerge Together? Thermophysical Aspects of Their Collective Decision-Making
Raymond E. Goldstein, Robert L. Jack, Adriana I. Pesci
Certain periodical cicadas exhibit life cycles with durations of 13 or 17 years, and it is now generally accepted that such large prime numbers arise evolutionarily to avoid synchr…
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…
Collapse of a hemicatenoid bounded by a solid wall: instability and dynamics driven by surface Plateau border friction
Christophe Raufaste, Simon Cox, Raymond E. Goldstein +1
The collapse of a catenoidal soap film when the rings supporting it are moved beyond a critical separation is a classic problem in interface motion in which there is a balance betw…