Do cyanobacteria swim using traveling surface waves?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 93, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 8340-8343

  Ehlers, Kurt M ^a   Samuel, Aravinthan D T ^b,c   Berg, Howard C ^b,c   Montgomery, Richard ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

bacteria; motility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CYANOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWIMMING; VELOCITY;

CYANOBACTERIA; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT;

CILIOPHORA; CYANOBACTERIA; FLEXIBACTERACEAE;

EID: 0029763084     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.16.8340     Document Type: Article

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