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Title: Swimming, Feeding and Inversion of Multicellular Choanoflagellate Sheets
(Submitted on 14 Mar 2023)
Abstract: The recent discovery of the striking sheet-like multicellular choanoflagellate species $Choanoeca~flexa$ that dynamically interconverts between two hemispherical forms of opposite orientation raises fundamental questions in cell and evolutionary biology, as choanoflagellates are the closest living relatives of animals. It similarly motivates questions in fluid and solid mechanics concerning the differential swimming speeds in the two states and the mechanism of curvature inversion triggered by changes in the geometry of microvilli emanating from each cell. Here we develop fluid dynamical and mechanical models to address these observations and show that they capture the main features of the swimming, feeding, and inversion of $C.~flexa$ colonies.
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From: Raymond Goldstein [view email][v1] Tue, 14 Mar 2023 09:16:22 GMT (6011kb,D)
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