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[Formation of polar bundles of pili on a cell and the behavior of Azospirillum brasilense in semiliquid agar].
Mikrobiologiia - 1 Jan 2000
Shelud'ko A V, Katsy E I
Abstract excerpt
This paper describes the formation of single polar bundles of pili on Azospirillum brasilense cells, the twitching motility of cell aggregates, and a new type of social behavior--the dispersal of bacterial cells in semiliquid agar associated with the formation of granular inclusions (the so-called Gri+ phenotype)--which is an alternative to swarming (the Swa+ phenotype). The wild-type A. brasilense cells...
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