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Dancing Volvox: Hydrodynamic Bound States of Swimming Algae

The spherical alga Volvox swims by means of flagella on thousands of surface somatic cells. This geometry and its large size make it a model organism for studying the fluid dynamics of multicellularity. Remarkably, when two nearby Volvox colonies swim close to a solid surface, they attract one anoth...

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Publicado en:Phys Rev Lett
Main Authors: Drescher, Knut, Leptos, Kyriacos C., Tuval, Idan, Ishikawa, Takuji, Pedley, Timothy J., Goldstein, Raymond E.
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4833199/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19518757
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.168101
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