IN dark-ground microscopy with the sun as light-source, motile bacteria, when swimming fast, show a tail, as in the top left-hand photograph reproduced. This tail is occasionally seen to untwist ...

Bacteria have developed many strategies to ... such as those that make up the flagellum ‘motor’ complex that powers bacterial movement. After revealing this complex functions as a rotary ...

The rotor is a large rotating structure, anchored to the cell membrane, that turns the flagellum ... and toxicity of some species of pathogenic bacteria. One motivation behind this study was ...

The rotor is a large rotating structure, anchored to the cell membrane, that turns the flagellum. On the other hand ... “Flagellar-based movement is involved in infections and toxicity of some species ...

Bacteria in your mouth may be linked to an increased risk of dementia, experts find Certain bacteria found in people's mouths may be linked to changes in brain function as you age, experts have ...

Certain bacteria found in people's mouths may be linked to changes in brain function as you age, experts have said. The study, external, led by the University of Exeter, found certain types of ...

The finding To better understand the role of the sheath, Edward Ruby of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and colleagues colonized squid with mutant bacteria that had either no flagellum or one that ...

The name refers to the characteristic funnel-shaped “collar” of interconnected microvilli and the presence of a flagellum ... plant-like phytoplankton and bacteria. In turn, protists become ...