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Science 9 February 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5813, pp. 773 - 774
DOI: 10.1126/science.1138995
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Perspectives

MICROBIOLOGY:
Bright Insight into Bacterial Gliding

Daniel B. Kearns

A tank tread-like motion of successive adhesions provides the force needed to propel a rod-shaped bacterium.

The author is in the Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. E-mail: dbkearns{at}indiana.edu

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