Sentences with phrase «several flagella»

But although growing several flagella allowed the bacteria to efficiently cover the entire surface, the adaptation also left them less able to stick together tightly and form biofilms.

Different bacteria have one or several flagella.

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In doing this work, the researchers made several important discoveries about the flagellum of male camel spiders.

It was tied to a single mutation that allowed the bacteria to develop several whip - like flagella that helped them to move around very rapidly.

In order to control the several genes that are regulated by the flagellum activity and by quorum sensing, we first deleted flaA, which encodes the flagelling core protein, and hapR, which encodes the quorum sensing master regulator.