A study of how ciliates detect their predators through chemoreception sensors

• Main Author: Ashvin Ravichandran
• Other Authors: Marcos
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Fluid mechanics; Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Mechanics and dynamics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/158242
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Chemoreception is one of an integral mechanism that benefits the ciliates to a great extent. The ciliates uses chemoreception as a means to detect any incoming predators such as dinoflagellates in its environment that may be a threat to the ciliates. When it is deemed as a threat to them, it a...