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Journal of Experimental Biology 47,267-276 (1967)
Published by Company of Biologists 1967

Propulsion by Hispid Flagella

M. E. J. HOLWILL ¹ and M. A. SLEIGH ²

¹ Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; Department of Physics, Queen Elizabeth College, Campden Hill Road, London, W.8
² Department of Zoology, University of Bristol, Bristol 8

Equations are derived for the propulsive velocities and power dissipation of undulating hispid flagella. The observed rates of movement of water around the flagella of two chrysomonad flagellates and the translation speed of Ochromonas malhamensis agree closely with values calculated if it is assumed that the flagellar mastigonemes remain perpendicular to the flagellar surface and that these mastigonemes lie in two diametrically opposed rows situated in the plane of the flagellar wave.

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