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Jeanneret, Raphaël, Pushkin, Dmitri O., Kantsler, Vasily and Polin, Marco (2016) Entrainment dominates the interaction of microalgae with micron-sized objects. Nature Communications, 7 . 12518. doi:10.1038/ncomms12518 ISSN 2041-1723.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12518
Abstract
The incessant activity of swimming microorganisms has a direct physical effect on surrounding microscopic objects, leading to enhanced diffusion far beyond the level of Brownian motion with possible influences on the spatial distribution of non-motile planktonic species and particulate drifters. Here we study in detail the effect of eukaryotic flagellates, represented by the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, on microparticles. Macro- and microscopic experiments reveal that microorganism-colloid interactions are dominated by rare close encounters leading to large displacements through direct entrainment. Simulations and theoretical modelling show that the ensuing particle dynamics can be understood in terms of a simple jump-diffusion process, combining standard diffusion with Poisson-distributed jumps. This heterogeneous dynamics is likely to depend on generic features of the near-field of swimming microorganisms with front-mounted flagella.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QK Botany Q Science > QR Microbiology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Chlamydomonas reinhardtii , Microalgae, Microorganisms, Plankton | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Nature Communications | ||||||||
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2041-1723 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 18 August 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 7 | ||||||||
Article Number: | 12518 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1038/ncomms12518 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 August 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 August 2016 |
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