Abstract The Lithium (Li) industry has been expanding worldwide, over the last decades,
and projections expect an increasing demand for its production in the coming years. It has …

Paramecium is a unicellular organism that swims in fresh water by beating thousands of
cilia. When it is stimulated (mechanically, chemically, optically, thermally…), it often swims …

How does neural activity drive muscles to produce behavior? The recent development of
genetic lines in Hydra that allow complete calcium imaging of both neuronal and muscle …

The cnidarian Hydra vulgaris has a simple nervous system with a few hundred neurons in
distributed networks. Yet Hydra can perform somersaults, a complex acrobatic locomotion …

For organisms to have robust locomotion, their neuromuscular organization must adapt to
constantly changing environments. In jellyfish, swimming robustness emerges when …

Jellyfish exhibit innovative swimming patterns that contribute to exploring the origins of
animal locomotion. However, the genetic and cellular basis of these patterns remains …

Nervous systems, like any organismal structure, have been shaped by evolutionary
processes to increase fitness. The resulting neural'bauplan'has to account for multiple …

Jellyfish are majestic, energy-efficient, and one of the oldest species that inhabit the oceans.
It is perhaps the second item, their efficiency, that has captivated scientists for decades into …

Although much is known about how the structure of the nervous system develops, it is still
unclear how its functional modularity arises. A dream experiment would be to observe the …

We propose a model for the structure formation of jellyfish swimming based on active
Brownian particles. We address the phenomena of counter-current swimming, avoidance of …