The ciliate Paramecium shows higher motility in non-uniform chemical landscapes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Giuffre, Carl ^a   Hinow, Peter ^a   Vogel, Ryan ^b   Ahmed, Tanvir ^c   Stocker, Roman ^c   Consi, Thomas R ^a   Strickler, J Rudi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CILIARY MOTILITY; FLUID FLOW; GRAVITY; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; CELL AGGREGATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PARAMECIUM; TIME;

CILIOPHORA; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PROTOZOA;

CHEMOTACTIC FACTOR;

CELL AGGREGATION; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MOVEMENT; PARAMECIUM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79954507560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015274     Document Type: Article

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