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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-09-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25408-7 |