Research project
Microbial hitchhiking
How do nonmotile microbes leverage communal motility?
- Duration
- 2020 - 2022
- Funding
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NWO veni
Description
The aim of the research is to determine how nonmotile microbes utilize the motility machinery of other microbes natively found in their vicinity.
Key publications
Muok, A.R., Claessen, D. & Briegel, A. Microbial hitchhiking: how Streptomyces spores are transported by motile soil bacteria. ISME J (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-021-00952-8
Muok AR, Briegel A. Intermicrobial Hitchhiking: How Nonmotile Microbes Leverage Communal Motility. Trends Microbiol. 2021 Jun;29(6):542-550. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2020.10.005
