Novel form of collective movement by soil bacteria

• Published in: The ISME Journal Vol. 16; no. 10; pp. 2337 - 2347
• Main Authors: Engelhardt, I. C., Patko, D., Liu, Y., Mimault, M., de las Heras Martinez, G., George, T. S., MacDonald, M., Ptashnyk, M., Sukhodub, T., Stanley-Wall, N. R., Holden, N., Daniell, T. J., Dupuy, L. X.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.10.2022; Oxford University Press; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 14/19; 14/63; 38/35; 631/326/171/1818; 704/158/855; Bacteria; Bacteriology; Biofilms; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Cell migration; Chemotaxis; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Flowers & plants; Genetic analysis; Hydrodynamics; Life Sciences; Microbial Ecology; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology; Microbiology and Parasitology; Microorganisms; Microscopy; Plant roots; Polymers; Quorum sensing; Soil bacteria; Soil microorganisms; Soils; B. subtilis; transparent soil; bacterial flocculation; collective movement; co-ordination; light sheet microscopy; root colonisation

Although migrations are essential for soil microorganisms to exploit scarce and heterogeneously distributed resources, bacterial mobility in soil remains poorly studied due to experimental limitations. In this study, time-lapse images collected using live microscopy techniques captured collective an...