Bacterial Swarms Recruit Cargo Bacteria To Pave the Way in Toxic Environments
ABSTRACT Swarming bacteria are challenged by the need to invade hostile environments. Swarms of the flagellated bacterium Paenibacillus vortex can collectively transport other microorganisms. Here we show that P. vortex can invade toxic environments by carrying antibiotic-degrading bacteria; this tr...
Saved in:
Main Authors: | Alin Finkelshtein, Dalit Roth, Eshel Ben Jacob, Colin J. Ingham |
---|---|
Format: | article |
Language: | EN |
Published: |
American Society for Microbiology
2015
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/c3e0a18d7a0e41c192c1775da68eedb2 |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Similar Items
-
Paving the way toward better peer review
Published: (2016) -
Functional adaptation of a plant receptor-kinase paved the way for the evolution of intracellular root symbioses with bacteria.
by: Katharina Markmann, et al.
Published: (2008) -
US Tobacco 21 is Paving the Way for a Tobacco Endgame
by: Samuel C J Kim, et al.
Published: (2021) -
A new human genome sequence paves the way for individualized genomics.
by: Liza Gross
Published: (2007) -
Blocking tumor necrosis factor paved the way for targeted therapeutics in inflammatory diseases
by: Cong-Qiu Chu, et al.
Published: (2021)