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Somersault of Paramecium in extremely confined environments

We investigate various swimming modes of Paramecium in geometric confinements and a non-swimming self-bending behavior like a somersault, which is quite different from the previously reported behaviors. We observe that Paramecia execute directional sinusoidal trajectories in thick fluid films, where...

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Autores principales: Jana, Saikat, Eddins, Aja, Spoon, Corrie, Jung, Sunghwan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4541324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26286234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep13148