====== Bacterial swarming motility ======

>Swarming motility is a rapid (2–10 μm/s) and coordinated translocation of a bacterial population across solid or semi-solid surfaces, and is an example of bacterial multicellularity and swarm behaviour. Swarming motility was first reported by Jorgen Henrichsen and has been mostly studied in genus// Serratia, Salmonella, Aeromonas, Bacillus, Yersinia, Pseudomonas, Proteus, Vibrio// and //Escherichia.// 
>\\ Source : [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarming_motility|Wikipedia]]

Swarming bacteria have been observed to move (as a group) at around 1cm per hour. The movement was first observed in the 1970's.

It's been seen mostly in laboratory conditions, but seems to be an innate behaviour that presumably has a role in natural environments as well. Its function, and the reasons for its evolution are currently unknown.

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Also see [[content:life_sciences:zoology:amoeboid_movement]] and [[content:life_sciences:zoology:flagella]] and [[content:life_sciences:zoology:bacterial_gliiding]]