ArticlePhysical review letters2017
Noncontact Cohesive Swimming of Bacteria in Two-Dimensional Liquid Films.
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- Surveying a Swarm: Experimental Techniques To Establish and Examine Bacterial Collective Motion.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Multiple functions of flagellar motility and chemotaxis in bacterial physiology.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2021Review
- An effective and efficient model of the near-field hydrodynamic interactions for active suspensions of bacteria.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Collective motion enhances chemotaxis in a two-dimensional bacterial swarm.Biophysical journal · 2021Article
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- Dynamic motility selection drives population segregation in a bacterial swarm.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Self-organization of swimmers drives long-range fluid transport in bacterial colonies.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Learning the space-time phase diagram of bacterial swarm expansion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- A statistical physics view of swarming bacteria.Movement ecology · 2019Review
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Abstract
Bacterial swimming in confined two-dimensional environments is ubiquitous in nature and in clinical settings. Characterizing individual interactions between swimming bacteria in 2D confinement will help to understand diverse microbial processes, such as bacterial swarming and biofilm formation. Here we report a novel motion pattern displayed by flagellated bacteria in 2D confinement: When two nearby cells align their moving directions, they tend to engage in cohesive swimming without direct cell body contact, as a result of hydrodynamic interaction but not flagellar intertwining. We further found that cells in cohesive swimming move with higher directional persistence, which can increase the effective diffusivity of cells by ∼3 times as predicted by computational modeling. As a conserved behavior for peritrichously flagellated bacteria, cohesive swimming in 2D confinement may be key to collective motion and self-organization in bacterial swarms; it may also promote bacterial dispersal in unsaturated soils and in interstitial space during infections.
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