2012/11/04 by Patrick C. Hickey, Anna Simonin, Hickey, Patrick C. +7
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Physics and Astronomy · #Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph) #FOS: Biological sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO) #physics.bio-ph #physics.flu-dyn #q-bio.TO
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1211.0659
Fluid dynamics video entry for the 2012 Gallery of Fluid Motion
arxiv created 2012/11/04 · arxiv updated 2012/11/06
The syncytial cells of a filamentous fungus consist of a mass of growing, tube-like hyphae. Each extending tip is fed by a continuous flow of nuclei from the colony interior, pushed by a gradient in turgor pressure. The myco-fluidic flows of nuclei are complex and multidirectional, like traffic in a city. We map out the flows in a strain of the model filamentous fungus \it N. crassa that has been transformed so that nuclei express either hH1-dsRed (a red fluorescent nuclear protein) or hH1-GFP (a green-fluorescent protein) and report our results in a fluid dynamics video.