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SUBMITTER: Samad T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5520027 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Samad Tahoura T Billings Nicole N Birjiniuk Alona A Crouzier Thomas T Doyle Patrick S PS Ribbeck Katharina K
The ISME journal 20170411 8
Swimming motility is considered a beneficial trait among bacterial species as it enables movement across fluid environments and augments invasion of tissues within the host. However, non-swimming bacteria also flourish in fluid habitats, but how they effectively spread and colonize distant ecological niches remains unclear. We show that non-motile staphylococci can gain motility by hitchhiking on swimming bacteria, leading to extended and directed motion with increased velocity. This phoretic in ...[more]