We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists, and what a special and unique phenomenon it is. As far as we know, ours ...

10 Surface appendages like pili, also known as fimbriae, aid in attachment and genetic exchange, while flagella enable movement, allowing prokaryotes to seek nutrients or avoid harmful conditions. 11 ...

Right now, Mars is a reddish desert landscape – attractive but dead, and certainly not home to any little green men.

It is evident that biofilm formation is an ancient and integral component of the prokaryotic life cycle, and is a key factor for survival in diverse environments. Recent advances show that ...

Redundancy analysis showed that the prokaryotic community variation was primary impacted by site properties of the different water table peatlands rather than the simulated climate change treatments.

Information regarding other genes relating to biofilm formation, chemotaxis and flagella, pilus formation, metal transport or utilization, and others was gathered from the annotated genome. Candidatus ...

NASA iCOOL (Center for the Integration of the Origins of Life) and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States Institute of ...

Among these, many bacterial species have tail-like structures—called flagella—that spin around to propel themselves in fluids. These movements employ protein complexes known as the "flagellar ...

Prokaryotic cell DNA is a single molecule, found free in the cytoplasm; additional DNA is found on one or more rings called plasmids.