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arxiv: 1211.0659 · v1 · pith:VNZYZKQGnew · submitted 2012-11-04 · ⚛️ physics.flu-dyn · physics.bio-ph· q-bio.TO

Nuclear flow in a filamentous fungus

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keywords filamentousfungusnucleiflowflowsnuclearproteinbeen
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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.

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