Vortical ciliary flows actively enhance mass transport in reef corals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 37, 2014, Pages 13391-13396

  Shapiro, Orr H ^a,b   Fernandez, Vicente I ^a   Garren, Melissa ^a   Guasto, Jeffrey S ^a,c   Debaillon Vesque, François P ^a,d   Kramarsky Winter, Esti ^b   Vardi, Assaf ^b   Stocker, Roman ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c Tufts University   (United States)

^d ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEF; DIFFUSION; EPIDERMIS; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; EVOLUTION; FLOW KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CILIA; CORAL REEFS; DIFFUSION; EPIDERMIS; OXYGEN; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 84907202724     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1323094111     Document Type: Article

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