ArticleNature communications2023
Multi-scale dynamic imaging reveals that cooperative motility behaviors promote efficient predation in bacteria.
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- Cooperation in binary mixtures of active colloids.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Predation in microbial communities: gradients of nutritive killing.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Automated decision-making by chemical echolocation in active droplets.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Strategies and mechanisms of contact-dependent predation in bacteria.Current opinion in microbiology · 2025Review
- Tad pili with adaptable tips mediate contact-dependent killing during bacterial predation.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Machine learning models for segmentation and classification of cyanobacterial cells.Photosynthesis research · 2025Article
- Machine Learning Models for Segmentation and Classification of Cyanobacterial Cells.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Lifecycle of a predatory bacterium vampirizing its prey through the cell envelope and S-layer.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Genetic components ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Many species, such as fish schools or bird flocks, rely on collective motion to forage, prey, or escape predators. Likewise, Myxococcus xanthus forages and moves collectively to prey and feed on other bacterial species. These activities require two distinct motility machines enabling adventurous (A) and social (S) gliding, however when and how these mechanisms are used has remained elusive. Here, we address this long-standing question by applying multiscale semantic cell tracking during predation. We show that: (1) foragers and swarms can comprise A- and S-motile cells, with single cells exchanging frequently between these groups; (2) A-motility is critical to ensure the directional movement of both foragers and swarms; (3) the combined action of A- and S-motile cells within swarms leads to increased predation efficiencies. These results challenge the notion that A- and S-motilities are exclusive to foragers and swarms, and show that these machines act synergistically to enhance predation efficiency.
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