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Swimming Synechococcus

Introduction

This organism swims without flagella at speeds up to 25 µm/s -- see project Swimming without flagella. When cells hit a glass wall, they pinwheel, rather like a tethered cell. The first movie shows swimming. The second movie (at higher magnification) shows pinwheeling.

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Synechococcus swimming
Synechococcus spinning

Reference

Waterbury, J.B. et al. "A cyanobacterium capable of swimming motility." Science 230, 74-76 (1985).

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