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Comparative Study
. 2011 Feb 15;108(7):2635-6.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1019199108. Epub 2011 Feb 2.

Reverse and flick: Hybrid locomotion in bacteria

Roman Stocker  1
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Comparative Study

Reverse and flick: Hybrid locomotion in bacteria

Roman Stocker. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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The author declares no conflict of interest.

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Fig. 1.
Schematic of the hybrid movement pattern of Vibrio alginolyticus, which alternates reversals and flicks. Reversals are 180° reorientations, whereas flicks result in a broad distribution of reorientation angles with a mean of ∼90°. The effective trajectory is a random walk (red path) with some dead-end forays (after reversals and before flicks).
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