Social motility of biofilm-like microcolonies in a gliding bacterium

Bacterial biofilms are aggregates of surface-associated cells embedded in an extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) matrix. Here, the authors describe a unique mode of collective movement by self-propelled, surface-associated spherical microcolonies with EPS cores in the gliding bacterium Flavobacterium...

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Auteurs principaux: Chao Li, Amanda Hurley, Wei Hu, Jay W. Warrick, Gabriel L. Lozano, Jose M. Ayuso, Wenxiao Pan, Jo Handelsman, David J. Beebe
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Langue:EN
Publié: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/421e789d126f4e939238cae1b7ddb3d7
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