Affiliation:
1. Rowland Institute for Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.
Abstract
Swimming cyanobacteria do not have flagella. In principle, they could be propelled by streams of ions flowing from head to tail, i.e., by a self-electrophoretic mechanism. We have ruled out this possibility by showing that cells of a swimming Synechococcus species fail to drift in an external electric field.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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