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Attempts to retreat from a dead-ended long capillary by backward swimming in Paramecium

We have observed how the ciliate Paramecium attempts to retreat from the dead-end of a long capillary that is too narrow for turning. After many trial-and-error episodes of short-term backward swimming (SBS), which is the conventional avoidance behavior exhibited in free swimming when an obstacle is...

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Main Authors: Kunita, Itsuki, Kuroda, Shigeru, Ohki, Kaito, Nakagaki, Toshiyuki
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4052044/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24966852
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00270
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