Diverse biophysical and molecular mechanisms drive phytoplankton sinking in response to starvation

• Yanqi Wu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Vieyiti K. Kouadio ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vieyiti K. Kouadio, Thomas R. Usherwood

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Thomas R. Usherwood ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vieyiti K. Kouadio, Thomas R. Usherwood

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard-MIT Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Justin Li,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Margaret Bisher,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Reshum Aurora,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Aaron Z. Lam,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Alice R. Lam,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Abigail K. R. Lytton-Jean,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Scott R. Manalis,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Teemu P. Miettinen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ^* teemu@mit.edu

  Affiliation Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5975-200X

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