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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="brief-report" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Biology Bulletin</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Biology Bulletin</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Известия Российской академии наук. Серия биологическая</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">1026-3470</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">3034-5367</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">The Russian Academy of Sciences</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">687646</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31857/S1026347025040128</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>КРАТКИЕ&#13;
СООБЩЕНИЯ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>КРАТКИЕ СООБЩЕНИЯ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Short Communication</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">A new approach to estimating speed of microorganisms uniform movement along a helical trajectory</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Новый подход к оценке скорости равномерного движения микроорганизмов по спиральной траектории</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Lyakh</surname><given-names>A. M.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Лях</surname><given-names>А. М.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><email>me@antonlyakh.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Rauen</surname><given-names>T. V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Рауэн</surname><given-names>Т. В.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><email>antonlyakh@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Kovalevskii Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">ФГБУН ФИЦ “Институт биологии южных морей им. А.О. Ковалевского РАН”</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-08-04" publication-format="electronic"><day>04</day><month>08</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>489</fpage><lpage>494</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-07-16"><day>16</day><month>07</month><year>2025</year></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2025-07-16"><day>16</day><month>07</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2025, Российская академия наук</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Российская академия наук</copyright-holder></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://medjrf.com/1026-3470/article/view/687646">https://medjrf.com/1026-3470/article/view/687646</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Analysis of the motion of microscopic organisms is important for understanding their behavior, intrinsic state, and response to external conditions. Many free-swimming microorganisms move in three-dimensional space along a helical trajectory. When a three-dimensional trajectory is analyzed from video frames, it is transformed into a flat curve. This leads to loss of some of the motion data and, in particular, to errors in the estimates of the traveled path and true speed. We propose to estimate the length of a three-dimensional spiral path using the maximum length of the projection of the trajectory segment. The analysis showed that for rectilinear spiral trajectories, along which organisms move uniformly, this method in many cases allows us to correctly estimate the traveled path and true speed of movement, and to perform a correct comparison of the speeds of different microorganisms.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Анализ движения микроскопических организмов важен для понимания их поведения, внутреннего состояния и реакции на внешние условия. Многие свободноплавающие микроорганизмы двигаются в трехмерном пространстве по спиральной траектории. При анализе трехмерной траектории по кадрам видео она превращается в плоскую кривую. Это приводит к потери части данных о движении и, в частности, к ошибкам в оценках пройденного пути и истинной скорости. Мы предлагаем оценивать длину трехмерного спирального пути по максимальной длине проекции отрезка траектории. Анализ показал, что для прямолинейных спиральных траекторий, по которым организмы двигаются равномерно, этот метод во многих случаях позволяет правильно оценить пройденный путь и истинную скорость движения и выполнить корректное сравнение скоростей разных микроорганизмов.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>trajectory</kwd><kwd>helical movement</kwd><kwd>movement speed</kwd><kwd>path projection</kwd><kwd>dinoflagellate</kwd><kwd>Oxyrrhis marina</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>траектория</kwd><kwd>движение по спирали</kwd><kwd>скорость движения</kwd><kwd>проекция пути</kwd><kwd>динофлагелляты</kwd><kwd>Oxyrrhis marina</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><award-group><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="ru">Правительство РФ</institution></institution-wrap><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="en">Gobierno de la Federación de Rusia</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>124030400057-4</award-id></award-group><award-group><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="ru">Правительство РФ</institution></institution-wrap><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="en">Gobierno de la Federación de Rusia</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>124022400152-1</award-id></award-group></funding-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Aragaki H., Ogoh K., Kondo Y., Aoki K. 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