MOTILITY AND POWER DISSIPATION IN FLAGELLATED CELLS, ESPECIALLY CHLAMYDOMONAS
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- 1 April 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Biological Bulletin
- Vol. 116 (2) , 285-293
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1539214
Abstract
The power output of 5 motile green flagellates (Amphidinium Klebsi, Carteria (?) sp., Chlamydomonas moewusii, Chlamydomonas reinhardi and Dunaliella sp.) was determined by relating the distance travelled by a particular organism per unit time to Stokes''S law. Cell size has no relationship to the minimal power output. The oxygen consumption (QO2 (N)) of a non-motile, mutant strain of Chlamydomonas moewusii was 14% lower than that of the motile strain. The power output calculated from these data is commensurate with the loss in motility and is close to the power output calculated from Stokes'' law. A photographic method for estimating the motility of a population of cells is described.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: