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Transient locking of the hook procures enhanced motility to flagellated bacteria

Flagellated bacteria often proliferate in inhomogeneous environments, such as biofilms, swarms and soil. In such media, bacteria are observed to move efficiently only if they can get out of “dead ends” by changing drastically their swimming direction, and even to completely reverse it. Even though t...

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Autores principales: Duchesne, Ismaël, Galstian, Tigran, Rainville, Simon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5703839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29180634
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-16562-4