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Chapters
- 00:05Introduction
- 01:03Culture Preparation
- 02:22Quantifying Flagella Motor Behavior via Cell Tethering
- 04:55Preparation of Swarms in a Border-crossing Assay
- 06:03Results: Motility of yhjH ycgR E. coli Strain
- 07:20Conclusion
Many bacteria use flagella-driven motility to navigate their environment and colonize favorable surroundings both individually and as a collective. Demonstrated here is the use of three established methods that exploit motility as a selection tool to identify components/pathways contributing to swimming and swarming motility.
