In their search for more favourable environments bacteria choose new directions to explore, usually at random. In a marine bacterium with a single polar flagellum it is now shown that this quest is enhanced by a buckling instability.
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%A Berg, Howard C.
%D 2013
%J Nature Physics
%K bacteria flagella motility
%P 460–461
%T Cell motility: Turning failure into function
%U http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v9/n8/full/nphys2678.html
%V 9
%X In their search for more favourable environments bacteria choose new directions to explore, usually at random. In a marine bacterium with a single polar flagellum it is now shown that this quest is enhanced by a buckling instability.
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abstract = {In their search for more favourable environments bacteria choose new directions to explore, usually at random. In a marine bacterium with a single polar flagellum it is now shown that this quest is enhanced by a buckling instability.},
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author = {Berg, Howard C.},
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journal = {Nature Physics},
keywords = {bacteria flagella motility},
month = {July},
pages = {460–461},
timestamp = {2014-06-03T13:16:44.000+0200},
title = {Cell motility: Turning failure into function},
url = {http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v9/n8/full/nphys2678.html},
volume = 9,
year = 2013
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