A research group has discovered an interesting way that bacteria adapt to their environment. Their study, published in ...

Unlike typical bacterial conjugation systems that are activated upon bacterial contact with solid surfaces, the pLS20 plasmid ...

The bacterial flagellum. (A) Electron micrograph of a Salmonella cell. (B) Electron micrograph of the Salmonella flagellum. (C) Schematic diagram of the flagellum. The flagellum consists of at ...

FipA is a novel component required for bacteria that rely on FlhF/FlhG to properly localize their flagella to the cell pole.

Bacteria with flagella, or spinning tails, can move up to a hundred times their body length in a second—a large fish can only move about ten times its body length in a second. The strongest ...

Good science anticipates the shortcomings of human intuition; it expects that the concepts so useful for interpreting the world around us, at the familiar human scale, may well prove unsuitable ...

1988). In addition to magnetosomes and magnetic nanoparticles, magnetotactic bacteria also have a flagellum, which they use for mobility. Magnetotactic bacteria are prokaryotic microorganisms ...