Lag, lock, sync, slip: The many 'phases' of coupled flagella

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 11, Issue 94, 2014, Pages

  Wan, Kirsty Y ^a   Leptos, Kyriacos C ^a   Goldstein, Raymond E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; Flagella; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM ALLOYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MUTAGENESIS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CHLAMYDOMONAS; COUPLED OSCILLATORS WITH; DYNAMIC COORDINATION; FLAGELLA; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; PARAMETRIZATIONS; PHASE SYNCHRONY; SIMPLE MODELING;

CELLS;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; FLAGELLUM; NOISE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; OSCILLATOR; PIPETTE; SWIMMING; WAVEFORM; WILD TYPE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNCHRONIZATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CHLAMYDOMONAS; FLAGELLA; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; FLAGELLA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84896990633     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.1160     Document Type: Article

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