Abstract
This paper is associated with a video winner of a 2016 APS/DFD Milton van Dyke Award for work presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion. The original video is available from the Gallery of Fluid Motion, https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2016.GFM.V0055
Highlights
This paper is associated with a video winner of a 2016 APS/DFD Milton van Dyke Award for work presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion
The first animals evolved at low Reynolds numbers, and so understanding how they adapted to their viscous surroundings may shed light on the general mechanisms by which environmental forces shape evolutionary processes
We spawned the larvae of Patiria miniata, a common starfish typically used as a model organism for developmental biology, and we observed that the larvae produce vortices around their bodies that form elegant arrays of eddies when the larva is immobilized on a microscope slide (Fig. 1)
Summary
This paper is associated with a video winner of a 2016 APS/DFD Milton van Dyke Award for work presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion. The first animals evolved at low Reynolds numbers, and so understanding how they adapted to their viscous surroundings may shed light on the general mechanisms by which environmental forces shape evolutionary processes.
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