Microbial Motile Structures (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Microbial Motile Structures

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The motile structures in Bacteria and Archaea: the archaellum (center) functions like a bacterial flagellum but its structure resembles a bacterial Type IV pilus.

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Sonja-Verena Albers of the MacPlanck Institute of Terrestrial Microbiology

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