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Squirmers with swirl: a model for Volvox swimming

Colonies of the green alga Volvox are spheres that swim through the beating of pairs of flagella on their surface somatic cells. The somatic cells themselves are mounted rigidly in a polymeric extracellular matrix, fixing the orientation of the flagella so that they beat approximately in a meridiona...

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Autores principales: Pedley, T. J., Brumley, D. R., Goldstein, R. E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5070036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27795576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2016.306