Each of the three domains of life exhibits a unique motility structure: while Bacteria use
flagella, Eukarya employ cilia, and Archaea swim using archaella. Since the new name for …

Echoing the repeated convergent evolution of flight and vision in large eukaryotes,
propulsive swimming motility has evolved independently in microbes in each of the three …

DPANN is a widespread and diverse group of archaea characterized by their small size,
reduced genome, limited metabolic pathways, and symbiotic existence. Known DPANN …

Archaea use a molecular machine, called the archaellum, to swim. The archaellum consists
of an ATP-powered intracellular motor that drives the rotation of an extracellular filament …

Cells from all three domains of life on Earth utilize motile macromolecular devices that
protrude from the cell surface to generate forces that allow them to swim through fluid media …

Archaea are ubiquitously present in nature and colonize environments with broadly varying
growth conditions. Several surface appendages support their colonization of new habitats. A …

Bacteria and archaea exhibit tactical behavior and can move up and down chemical
gradients. This tactical behavior relies on a motility structure, which is guided by a …

Motility structures are vital in all three domains of life. In Archaea, motility is mediated by the
archaellum, a rotating type IV pilus-like structure that is a unique nanomachine for swimming …

Each of the three Domains of life, Eukarya, Bacteria and Archaea, have swimming structures
that were all originally called flagella, despite the fact that none were evolutionarily related to …

MinD proteins are well studied in rod-shaped bacteria such as E. coli, where they display
self-organized pole-to-pole oscillations that are important for correct positioning of the Z-ring …