Multi-ciliated cells make a regulated flow by cooperatively moving their cilia. Recent study have reported that the spatially and orientationally wellarranged distribution of cilium in a cell is crucial to the correct motions and that microtubules connected to the basal foot of each cilia may help to organize this distribution. To verify this hypothesis, we performed a numerical study, modeling the collective motions of the basal bodies which generate microtubules from their basal feet as those

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... of simple particles acting as anchors binding two microtubules of the same length with a fixed angle. The MD like simulations showed that four characteristic spatio-temporal patterns emerged depending on the density of the basal bodies and the angular parameter. 2P278 マイクロアレイデータに基づく植物の遺伝子発現揺らぎと機 能の関係