Some bacteria travel through incredibly small spaces. Researchers—and a researcher’s awesome illustration of a devilishly satisfied microbe—have revealed how the bacteria Caballeronia insecticola is able to traverse narrow passages in a bean bug’s digestive tract.
In a study published last week in Nature Communications, a team of researchers found that C. insecticola navigates through a bottleneck in the bug’s gut just 1 micrometer wide via a “flagellar wrapping” motion….

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