The locomotory system of many animals is muscle based. However, small marine animals often move by cilia. This type of locomotion is more ancient in evolution than muscle-based locomotion and very ...

This release is available in German. As planktonic organisms the larvae of the marine annelid Platynereis swim freely in the open water. They move by activity of their cilia, thousands of tiny ...

LA JOLLALA JOLLA — Validating a 50-year-old hypothesis, scientists at the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Jacobs School of Engineering in La Jolla say they ...