Envelope structure of Synechococcus sp. WH8113, a nonflagellated swimming cyanobacterium
Publication information:
Samuel, A. D. T., Peterson, J. D. & Reese, T. S. Envelope structure of Synechococcus sp. WH8113, a nonflagellated swimming cyanobacterium. BMC Microbiology 1, 4 (2001).
Abstract
Many bacteria swim by rotating helical flagellar filaments [1]. Waterbury et al. [15] discovered an exception, strains of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus that swim without flagella or visible changes in shape. Other species of cyanobacteria glide on surfaces [2,7]. The hypothesis that Synechococcus might swim using traveling surface waves [6,13] prompted this investigation.