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Swimming behavior of sea urchin larvae

Species name: Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus

Inaba lab., Shimoda marine research center, Tsukuba Univ. Kogiku Shiba

Most marine organisms swim by cilia on their body surface. They have special cilia in front called as an apical tuft which is longer and less motile than other cilia.

Cytoskeleton, 70, 453–470, 2013

(2014.02.07)

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