Swarming in Bacteria: A Tale of Plasticity in Motility Behavior

TY - JOUR

T1 - Swarming in Bacteria

T2 - A Tale of Plasticity in Motility Behavior

AU - Jose, Rahul

AU - Singh, Varsha

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020, Indian Institute of Science.

PY - 2020/7

Y1 - 2020/7

N2 - One of the most fascinating sights in nature is to witness certain insects, birds, and fish move together in a very coordinated and precise fashion for food search, to avoid predation and for migration. The collective movement is called swarming. In 1885, Gustav Hauser, a German pathologist discovered collective movement in a bacterium he later named Proteus mirabilis (Armbruster and Mobley in, Nat Rev Microbiol 30: 186–194, 2013). It was not until 1972 when this mode of bacterial movement was characterized and classified by Henrichsen (Bacteriol Rev 36: 478–503, 1972). Several bacteria are now known to exhibit swarming. Here we describe the how and why of swarming with a focus on plasticity.

AB - One of the most fascinating sights in nature is to witness certain insects, birds, and fish move together in a very coordinated and precise fashion for food search, to avoid predation and for migration. The collective movement is called swarming. In 1885, Gustav Hauser, a German pathologist discovered collective movement in a bacterium he later named Proteus mirabilis (Armbruster and Mobley in, Nat Rev Microbiol 30: 186–194, 2013). It was not until 1972 when this mode of bacterial movement was characterized and classified by Henrichsen (Bacteriol Rev 36: 478–503, 1972). Several bacteria are now known to exhibit swarming. Here we describe the how and why of swarming with a focus on plasticity.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85085702034

U2 - 10.1007/s41745-020-00177-2

DO - 10.1007/s41745-020-00177-2

M3 - Review article

AN - SCOPUS:85085702034

SN - 0970-4140

VL - 100

SP - 515

EP - 524

JO - Journal of the Indian Institute of Science

JF - Journal of the Indian Institute of Science

IS - 3

ER -