Asymmetric swimming pattern of Vibrio alginolyticus cells with single polar flagella

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 242, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 221-225

  Kudo, Seishi ^a   Imai, Norio ^a   Nishitoba, Megumi ^a   Sugiyama, Shigeru ^b   Magariyama, Yukio ^b  

^a TOIN UNIVERSITY OF YOKOHAMA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Chemotaxis; Flagella; Forward backward; Motility; Wall effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; CELL MOTILITY; CELL MOTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LINEAR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID; SURFACE PROPERTY; SWIMMING; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; FLAGELLA; LOCOMOTION; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

EID: 11144328233     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.11.007     Document Type: Article

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