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Aug 2026
The cost-benefit trade-off of peritrichous flagellation in bacteria
A quantitative cost-benefit model is supported in which heterogeneous, spatially structured environments favor an intermediate number of flagella by balancing motility benefits against the biosynthetic costs of building and operating multiple flagella.
María Giralt-Zúñiga, Michael Jahn, Joshua L. Franklin et al.
· bioRxiv · 0 citations