THERE is a considerable variation in the morphology of the flagella in the lower plant groups and in the flagellates. The flagellar structures have been used as systematic characters since the ...

Bacteria such as Salmonella are propelled by stiff slender corkscrew-like structures called flagella, which are driven by rotary motors. These helical filaments are built from a single type of ...

Many species of swimming bacteria have a rotary structure called a "flagellum," consisting of more than twenty different kinds of proteins. By rotating their flagellar filaments and gaining propulsion ...

Recently, a research group led by Prof. WANG Junfeng from the Hefei Institute of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with Prof. HE Yongxing's research group from Lanzhou ...

How well bacteria move and sense their environment directly affects their success in surviving and spreading. About half of known bacteria species use a flagella to move — a rotating appendage that ...

Kirk Mykytyn, Robert F. Mullins, Michael Andrews, Annie P. Chiang, Ruth E. Swiderski, Baoli Yang, Terry Braun, Thomas Casavant, Edwin M. Stone, Val C. Sheffield, Jeremy Nathans Proceedings of the ...