Publication Date:
2015-05-16
Description:
Nature Reviews Microbiology 13, 329 (2015). doi:10.1038/nrmicro3494 Author: Andrea Du Toit To survive in the environment, the soil-dwelling bacterium Bacillus subtilis must overcome several challenges, including flagellum-independent migration over solid surfaces. Kolter and colleagues show that B. subtilis forms multicellular structures that facilitate collective cell migration. The authors found that during colony expansion, cells
Print ISSN:
1740-1526
Electronic ISSN:
1740-1534
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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