Bacteria can exploit a flagellar buckling instability to change direction

Nature Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 494-498

  Son, Kwangmin ^a   Guasto, Jeffrey S ^a   Stocker, Roman ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; HOOKS; MECHANICAL STABILITY; MUTAGENESIS;

BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; BUCKLING INSTABILITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CUES; FLAGELLAR FILAMENTS; FLAGELLATED BACTERIA; HIGH-SPEED VIDEO; HYDRODYNAMIC LOADS; MECHANICAL FAILURES;

BACTERIA;

EID: 84881476351     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2676     Document Type: Article

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