2 papers
cond-mat.soft2016
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…
cond-mat.soft2015
Motility of Colonial Choanoflagellates and the Statistics of Aggregate Random Walkers
Julius B. Kirkegaard, Alan O. Marron, Raymond E. Goldstein
We illuminate the nature of the three-dimensional random walks of microorganisms composed of individual organisms adhered together. Such are typified by…