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Dancing Volvox: Hydrodynamic Bound States of Swimming Algae
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The spherical alga Volvox swims by means of flagella on thousands of surface somatic cells. This geometry and its large size make it a model organism for studying the fluid dynamics of multicellularity. Remarkably, when two nearby Volvox colonies swim close to a solid surface, they attract one another and can form stable bound states in which they "waltz" or "minuet" around each other. A surface-mediated hydrodynamic attraction combined with lubrication forces between spinning, bottom-heavy Volvox explains the formation, stability, and dynamics of the bound states. These phenomena are suggested to underlie observed clustering of Volvox at surfaces.
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- Drescher, K., Leptos, K. C., Tuval, I., Ishikawa, T., Pedley, T. J., & Goldstein, R. E.
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- Physical Review Letters
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- American Physical Society (APS)
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- 2009-04-20
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- 102
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- 16
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- 168101-168101
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- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
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- 16.11
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- en
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