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. 2007 Dec 7;94(7):2492–2504. doi: 10.1529/biophysj.107.113050

FIGURE 6.

FIGURE 6

Schematic drawing of the locomotive mechanism of shuttle flow in plasmodia. The two hatched bands on the time-latitude plane are the shifting vector fields from Fig. 4. The width of the vector field is L, and the duration at the fixed latitudinal point is T. Hence the shifting velocity of the vector field is u = L/T. A fluid particle starting from point A on the latitude curve is carried by the forward flow to point B, then by the backward flow to point C. The migration distance lF is the distance between A and B and lB is the distance between B and C.