Intermicrobial Hitchhiking: How Nonmotile Microbes Leverage Communal Motility

Sporadic reports demonstrate that some nonmotile microbes utilize trans-species hitchhiking to traverse their environment.Hitchhiking has been observed with eukaryotic and prokaryotic microbes.Four general mechanisms have elucidated thus far: mechanical pushing by motile cells, direct attachment cell bodies, bacterial flagella, internal transport cells.Several immotile human plant pathogens hitchhike are natively found in vicinity.In instances, is implicated infectivity of microbial pathogens. Motility allows many environment find nutrient sources or escape unfavorable environments. However, restricted immediate conditions. Intriguingly, sporadic demonstrated can the motility machinery other vicinity. This form transportation, called hitchhiking, both microbes. Importantly, pathogenic humans plants. Here, we discuss intermicrobial generate a comprehensive view how such interactions may influence health. 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