ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
Multiflagellarity leads to the size-independent swimming speed of peritrichous bacteria.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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Abstract
To swim through a viscous fluid, a flagellated bacterium must overcome the fluid drag on its body by rotating a flagellum or a bundle of multiple flagella. Because the drag increases with the size of bacteria, it is expected theoretically that the swimming speed of a bacterium inversely correlates with its body length. Nevertheless, despite extensive research, the fundamental size-speed relation of flagellated bacteria remains unclear with different experiments reporting conflicting results. Here, by critically reviewing the existing evidence and synergizing our own experiments of large sample sizes, hydrodynamic modeling, and simulations, we demonstrate that the average swimming speed of
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