What is it about?
This work describes observations of reduced surface motility of two bacterial species known to exhibit enhanced surface movement on agar.
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Why is it important?
The observations hold implications at two levels. Firstly, the results highlight that the two bacterial species could be used as models for understanding how genetic alterations might impact on bacterial surface movement behavior. Secondly, the observations also suggest the existence of additional triggers for enhanced surface movement in bacteria other than nutritional stress.
Perspectives
This work highlights that enhanced surface movement is not conserved amongst all strains of bacterial species able to engage in the motility mode.
Wenfa Ng
National University of Singapore
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This page is a summary of: Retarded swarming motility in Bacillus subtilis NRS-762 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa PRD-10, May 2018, PeerJ,
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.26914v1.
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