In recent years, evidence has accumulated for an indispensable role for cilia and flagella in various cellular ... depends on its ability to nucleate, anchor and release MTs.

While flagella and cilia are structurally identical, they can be distinguished by their length, density, and motility patterns. Whilst flagella feature predominantly on prokaryotic cells ...

Using a tool called Automated Meiotic Mapping (AMM) that was developed at UT Southwestern Medical Center, a team of ...

Cilia and flagella, the protrusions that cells use for propulsion and sensing, often wave spontaneously. Zvonimir Dogic, a physicist at Brandeis University, wanted to understand what about their ...

The study shows that in liquid environments, where bacteria rely on movement to navigate, the rotation of flagella acts as a mechanical signal that turns on a set of genes required for DNA transfer.

Eukaryotic flagella, whip-like organelles that elegantly propel microorganisms and pump fluid, seem to embody simplicity on the microscopic scale. But appearances can be deceptive: Flagella are ...

But these cells also sport simpler, hairlike protrusions called cilia. Long overlooked, the little stubs may actually have big jobs in the brain. Researchers are turning up roles for nerve cell ...

Rosenbaum’s organism of choice to study cilia was the green alga Chlamydomonas, which possess two tiny-hair like flagella, structurally the same as cilia found on nearly all mammalian cells. He wanted ...

Their study, published in Microbiological Research, reveals that bacteria can evolve by losing their flagella, the structures responsible ... A trio of fluid dynamics and mathematical modelers at ...