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Metachronal wave coordination encodes multimodal swimming in ciliated unicellular predators

2025-09-17

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Motile cilia are slender cellular appendages, conserved across eukaryotes ranging from unicellular protists to humans, that beat to generate fluid flow. In most organisms, cilia form dense arrays of thousands of filaments that coordinate their motion into persistent, temporally synchronized patterns known as metachronal waves. Despite their ubiquity, the dynamics of these patterns and their role in tuning propulsi...

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Literature Corpus work: f0b627a0-cc65-5953-b252-53236e5860df
DOI: 10.1101/2025.09.12.675801

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