Attempts to retreat from a dead-ended long capillary by backward swimming in Paramecium

Attempts to retreat from a dead-ended long capillary by backward swimming in Paramecium

We have observed how the ciliate Paramecium attempts to retreat from the dead-end of a long capillary that is too narrow for turning. After many trial-and-error episodes of short-term backward swimming (SBS), which is the conventional avoidance behavior exhibited in free swimming when an obstacle is...

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Main Authors: Itsuki eKunita, Shigeru eKuroda, Kaito eOhki, Toshiyuki eNakagaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Paramecium
membrane potential
avoidance behavior
long-term backward swimming
Ca$^{2+}$ current
Hodgkin-Huxley-type model
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00270/full

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