Ciliary beating patterns map onto a low-dimensional behavioural space

A Study of Ciliary Beating in Chlamydomonas

Paramecium swimming and ciliary beating patterns: a study on four RNA interference mutations.

Paramecium cells swim and feed by beating their thousands of cilia in coordinated patterns. The organization of these patterns and its relationship with cell motility has been the subject of a large body of work, particularly as a model for ciliary beating in human organs where similar organization is seen. However the rapid motion of the cells makes quantitative measurements very challenging. ...

Writing Direction Affects How People Map Space Onto Time

What determines which spatial axis people use to represent time? We investigate effects of writing direction. English, like Mandarin Chinese in mainland China, is written left to right and then top to bottom. But in Taiwan, characters are written predominantly top to bottom and then right to left. Because being a fluent reader-writer entails thousands of hours of experience with eye and hand mo...

Flagellar and ciliary beating in trypanosome motility.

The single flagellum of Leishmania and Trypanosoma parasites is becoming an increasingly attractive model for the analysis of flagellar function-driven largely by the abundance of genomic and proteomic information available for the organelle, the genetic manipulability of the organisms and the importance of motility for the parasite lifecycle. However, as yet, there is a paucity of published da...

Swimming Controlled by Ciliary or Flagellar Beating

It has been k membrane po ity of ciliated potential of c means by mec ture stimuli ( mechanical st plasma memb FIGURE 1. Th channels (40) vating voltage iary/flagellar m an increase of in turn initiate movement. In ciliary Ca2+ co K+ channels. T brane potentia ated forward conductance tants and pher tivation of v characteristic ing rapidly ba (90). So far, th lar identificati Paramecium e chann...