Swimming strategies of bacteria

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Description: English: Schematics (not to scale) of different swimming strategies. Run and tumble from Escherichia coli; forward, reverse, and turning by buckling of Vibrio alginolyticus (adapted from Son et al., 2013); stop and coil from Rhodobacter sphaeroides (adapted from Armitage and Macnab, 1987; Armitage et al., 1999); push, pull, and wrap from Pseudomonas putida (adapted from Hintsche et al., 2017). The direction of bacteria movement is indicated by the arrows. References: Son, K., Guasto, J. S., and Stocker, R. (2013). Bacteria can exploit a flagellar buckling instability to change direction. Nat. Phys. 9, 494–498. doi: 10.1038/nphys2676 Armitage, J. P., and Macnab, R. M. (1987). Unidirectional, intermittent rotation of the flagellum of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. J. Bacteriol. 169, 514–518. doi: 10.1128/jb.169.2.514-518.1987 Armitage, J. P., Pitta, T. P., Vigeant, M. A., Packer, H. L., and Ford, R. M. (1999). Transformations in flagellar structure of Rhodobacter sphaeroides and possible relationship to changes in swimming speed. J. Bacteriol. 181, 4825–4833. Hintsche, M., Waljor, V., Großmann, R., Kühn, M. J., Thormann, K. M., Peruani, F., et al. (2017). A polar bundle of flagella can drive bacterial swimming by pushing, pulling, or coiling around the cell body. Sci. Rep. 7:16771. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-16428-9. Date: 20 August 2018. Source: Extracted from this Commons file. Author: Julio Bastos-Arrieta, Ainhoa Revilla-Guarinos, William E. Uspal and Juliane Simmchen.