Mary's Monday Metazoan: Vortices!

Oooh, beautiful. Starfish larvae are covered with beating cilia that they use to swim, and also to swirl bacteria towards their mouth…and in this video that visualizes the motion generated by the cilia, you can see that they do both at the same time.

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evden eve nakliyat hizmetine ihtiyacınız olduğunda aklınıza gelecek ilk firma Atasun evden eve nakliyat. Teşekkürler

By İzmir Evden Ev… (not verified) on 07 Mar 2017 #permalink

Comment #1 is an advertisement for a Turkish moving company. That's some serious spamming! Love the starfish.

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