Motile cilia hydrodynamics: entrainment versus synchronization when coupling through flow.

ABSTRACT: Coordinated motion of cilia is a fascinating and vital aspect of very diverse forms of eukaryotic life, enabling swimming and propulsion of fluid across cellular epithelia. There are many questions still unresolved, and broadly they fall into two classes. (i) The mechanism of how cilia physically transmit forces onto each other. It is not known for many systems if the forces are mainly of hydrodynamical origin, or if elastic forces within the cytoskeleton are important. (ii) In those systems where we know that forces are purely hydrodynamical, we do not have a framework for linking our understanding of how each cilium behaves in isolation to the collective properties of two or more cilia. In this work, we take biological data of cilia dynamics from a variety of organisms as an input for an

SUBMITTER: Hamilton E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7017333 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature