Synchronised swimming of algae

Friday, July 24, 2009 - 15:21 in Biology & Nature

Using high-speed cinematography, scientists at Cambridge University have discovered that individual algal cells can regulate the beating of their flagella in and out of synchrony in a manner that controls their swimming trajectories. Their research was published on the 24th July in the journal Science...

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