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Gliding Motility in Bacteria: Insights from Studies of Myxococcus xanthus

Gliding motility is observed in a large variety of phylogenetically unrelated bacteria. Gliding provides a means for microbes to travel in environments with a low water content, such as might be found in biofilms, microbial mats, and soil. Gliding is defined as the movement of a cell on a surface in...

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Main Author: Spormann, Alfred M.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 1999
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC103748/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10477310
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