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SUBMITTER: Coppola S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7801662 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Coppola Simone S Kantsler Vasily V
Scientific reports 20210111 1
We study the behaviour of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (CR) in the presence of neighbouring regions of different viscosity. We show that the velocity and angular diffusion of the algae decreases when the viscosity of the surrounding medium is increased. We report on a phenomenon occurring when the algae try to cross from a region of low viscosity to a highly viscous one, which causes CR to re-orient and scatter away from the interface if it is approached at a sufficiently small angle ...[more]