Cilia and flagella are fundamental units of motion in cellular biology. These beating, hair-like
organelles share a common basic structure but maintain widely varying functions in systems …

Heterotrophic nanoflagellates are the main consumers of bacteria and picophytoplankton in
the ocean and thus play a key role in ocean biogeochemistry. They are found in all major …

Activity and autonomous motion are fundamental in living and engineering systems. This
has stimulated the new field of'active matter'in recent years, which focuses on the physical …

In most eukaryotic organisms, cilia and flagella perform a variety of life-sustaining roles
related to environmental sensing and motility. Cryo-electron microscopy has provided …

Viruses are the most abundant biological entities in the ocean and show great diversity in
terms of size, host specificity, and infection cycle. Lytic viruses induce host cell lysis to …

A signature feature of the animal kingdom is the presence of epithelia: sheets of polarized
cells that both insulate the organism from its environment and mediate interactions with it …

The phagotrophic flagellates described as “typical excavates” have been hypothesized to be
morphologically similar to the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor and understanding the …

Biological activity is often highly concentrated on surfaces, across the scales from molecular
motors and ciliary arrays to sessile and motile organisms. These 'active carpets' locally inject …

Phagotrophic flagellates are the main consumers of bacteria and picophytoplankton.
Despite their ecological significance in the 'microbial loop', many of their predation …

Phagocytosis is an evolutionarily conserved process. In Protozoa, phagocytosis fulfills a
feeding mechanism, while in Metazoa, phagocytosis diversified to play multiple organismal …