Swarming is one of the principal forms of bacterial motility facilitated by flagella and surfactants. It plays a distinctive ...

Species of bacteria such as Campylobacter jejuni, which causes food poisoning, maintain multiple components in their flagella, according to the research published in the Nature Communications journal.

Among bacteria’s many attributes ... This variety, as well as the fact that flagellum has evolved independently multiple times, adds evidence to the fact that it evolved gradually via natural ...

The flagella give the bacteria the ability to swim in their ... out of the bacterium body -- much like body hair -- thanks to multiple proteins. Some proteins are responsible for the rotation ...

Their study, published in Microbiological Research, reveals that bacteria can evolve by losing their flagella, the structures responsible for movement. Flagella are important for bacteria because ...

Bacteria can have one or many flagella, which are made up of thousands of subunits, and although those subunits are all the same, they don't form an inflexible string, or a uniform structure. Instead, ...

About half of known bacteria species use a flagella to move — a rotating appendage that functions like a propellor. The flagella have motors behind them with tiny cylinders that look almost mechanical ...

An underwater robot can delicately propel itself in any direction with its 12 flexible arms, inspired by the flagella of bacteria. Its creators claim it can carry out underwater inspections ...

Early on in the research, the scientists discovered that it was the bacterial flagella—part of the cell that aids in movement—that enables the bacteria to invade cancer cells. So they ...