Unidirectional movement of flares of cells of Myxococcus xanthus.

Abstract excerpt

Amongst other modes, Myxococcal cells move in swarms that are flares or columns of cells. It has been argued that this is a strategy allowing a large enough number of them to encounter food bacteria. Then, the combined large amount of extracellular lytic enzymes from the mass of cells can provide adequate nutrient resources from the food bacteria for all the myxococci of the swarm. However, how they move as a...

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