Bacteria come in a wide variety of shapes, which are important for their fitness in their respective ecological niches.

Bacteria come in a surprising variety of shapes. In addition to rod-shaped representatives such as the widely known model bacterium E. coli, there are numerous curved and even spiral-shaped bacteria.

Bacteria come in a surprising variety of shapes. In addition to rod-shaped representatives such as the widely known model bacterium E. coli, there are numerous curved and even spiral-shaped bacteria.

They exist in pairs, chains, or clusters. They are found everywhere, including on and in the human body and within water, ...

Bacteria come in a surprising variety of shapes. In addition to rod-shaped representatives such as the widely known model bacterium E. coli, there are numerous curved and even spiral-shaped bacteria.

the factors that determine the shape of bacterial cells remain, in many cases, unknown. A team of researchers led by Martin Thanbichler has now discovered the mechanism that determines the spiral ...

Bacteria come in a surprising variety of shapes ... which ultimately bends the cell body into a spiral shape.” The findings are likely to apply to all curved relatives of Rhodospirillum ...

causing the cell body to distort into a spiral shape. Use of images is limited to editorial coverage of scientific topics relating to the activities of the Max Planck Society. Any kind of ...

Viruses that infect bacteria—known as bacteriophages—could be used in a targeted manner to combat bacterial diseases. They also play an important ecological role in global biogeochemical cycles.