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ArticleBiophysical journal2016

Dynamics of Snake-like Swarming Behavior of Vibrio alginolyticus.

Thomas Böttcher, Hunter L Elliott, Jon Clardy

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Pattern formation and polarity sorting of driven actin filaments on lipid membranes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  5. Inhibitors of Bacterial Swarming Behavior.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2020
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  7. Learning the space-time phase diagram of bacterial swarm expansion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Thomas BöttcherUniversity of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany. Electronic address: thomas.boettcher@uni-konstanz.de.
Hunter L ElliottHarvard Medical School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Jon ClardyHarvard Medical School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Electronic address: jon_clardy@hms.harvard.edu.

Funding

Treatments for Nipah Virus InfectionU54AI057159 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI ONDERDONK, ANDREW B. · 2003 to 2013
$113.7M
Molecule-to-gene approaches to new natural productsR01GM086258 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI CLARDY, JON · 2008 to 2016
$3.6M
NIAID NIH HHS 5U54 AI057159NIAID NIH HHS U54 AI057159NIGMS NIH HHS GM086258NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM086258
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Swarming represents a special case of bacterial behavior where motile bacteria migrate rapidly and collectively on surfaces. Swarming and swimming motility of bacteria has been studied well for rigid, self-propelled rods. In this study we report a strain of Vibrio alginolyticus, a species that exhibits similar collective motility but a fundamentally different cell morphology with highly flexible snake-like swarming cells. Investigating swarming dynamics requires high-resolution imaging of single cells with coverage over a large area: thousands of square microns. Researchers previously have employed various methods of motion analysis but largely for rod-like bacteria. We employ temporal variance analysis of a short time-lapse microscopic image series to capture the motion dynamics of swarming Vibrio alginolyticus at cellular resolution over hundreds of microns. Temporal variance is a simple and broadly applicable method for analyzing bacterial swarming behavior in two and three dimensions with both high-resolution and wide-spatial coverage. This study provides detailed insights into the swarming architecture and dynamics of Vibrio alginolyticus isolate B522 on carrageenan agar that may lay the foundation for swarming studies of snake-like, nonrod-shaped motile cell types.

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MovementBiomimetic MaterialsFlagellaSeaweedVibrio alginolyticus

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PMID26910435
PMCPMC4776037

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