Flow around the coral (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Flow around the coral

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Water forms miniature currents (visualized by the red lines) at the surface of black corals, thanks to the coordinated motion of microscopic cilia (depicted in the inset).

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Mathilde Godefroid and Swantje Lilienthal, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

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