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Rheotaxis

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rheotaxis [¦rē·ə¦tak·səs]
(biology)
Movement of a motile cell or organism in response to the direction of water currents.
Rheotaxis 

the property of certain lower plants (myxomycetous plasmodia), unicellular animals (flagellates, infusorians), and cells (spermatozoa) to move in a direction opposite to the current of a fluid.
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Asterias rubens shows positive rheotaxis moving upstream in the presence of water currents to locate its prey (Castilla & Crisp 1973) and uses tidal currents to detect and move towards mussel populations (Dare 1982).
The seasonal movement and abundance of the starfish, Asterias rubens ... by Gallagher, T.; Richardson, C.A.; Seed, R.; Jones, T. / Journal of Shellfish Research
Morphological development in relation to photo-taxis and rheotaxis in the striped jack, Pseudocaranx dentex.
Behavioral ontogeny in larvae and early juveniles of the giant ... by Leis, Jeffrey M.; Hay, Amanda C.; Clark, Domine L.; Chen, I-Shiung; Shao, Kwang-Tsao / Fishery Bulletin
 
 
 
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