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Schematic of the motion of an individual cilium and the collective motion of cilia. (a) Effective stroke of an individual cilium. The numbers in the figure indicate the order of the ciliary motion. The effective stroke is defined from 1 to 3. (b) Metachronal wave generated by cilia (reproduced images from Blake & Sleigh 1974).
