Flagella-Free Survival: How Bacteria Evolve by Shedding Their "Wheels" (IMAGE)

Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Flagella-Free Survival: How Bacteria Evolve by Shedding Their "Wheels"

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The phenomenon of "hitchhiking" by nonmotile bacteria during swarming movement 

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WANG Jiarong

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