A discrete ability to tell time may facilitate the growth pattern of the desert bacterium.
Actin filament assembly generates the force that pushes the bacterium in the mammalian host cytoplasm forward.
The lesions caused by the activity of the scolytid create an entry site for secondary infection by bacteria and fungi.
On each slide, bacteria were viewed at 630x magnification and 10 square fields measuring 145 m per side.
However, these findings are restricted to a fraction of (known) cultivable and viable bacteria only.
The level of attaching bacteria were estimated by three different methods.
Indeed, flagella handedness has no effect on the tumbling of short bacteria, as they make many turns before ending at a new angle.
However, the distribution of bacterial cells inside the colony looked almost homogeneous, and the bacteria were moving around actively even deep inside the colony.
