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SUBMITTER: Vizsnyiczai G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7214458 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vizsnyiczai Gaszton G Frangipane Giacomo G Bianchi Silvio S Saglimbeni Filippo F Dell'Arciprete Dario D Di Leonardo Roberto R
Nature communications 20200511 1
Living organisms often display adaptive strategies that allow them to move efficiently even in strong confinement. With one single degree of freedom, the angle of a rotating bundle of flagella, bacteria provide one of the simplest examples of locomotion in the living world. Here we show that a purely physical mechanism, depending on a hydrodynamic stability condition, is responsible for a confinement induced transition between two swimming states in E. coli. While in large channels bacteria alwa ...[more]