title: Bacterial chemotaxis: the early years of molecular studies.
abstract: This review focuses on the early years of molecular studies of bacterial chemotaxis and motility, beginning in the 1960s with Julius Adler's pioneering work. It describes key observations that established the field and made bacterial chemotaxis a paradigm for the molecular understanding of biological signaling. Consideration of those early years includes aspects of science seldom described in journals: the accidental findings, personal interactions, and scientific culture that often drive scientific progress.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, 65211, USA. hazelbauerg@missouri.edu
authors.forename: Gerald L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Hazelbauer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018407:Bacterial Physiological Phenomena; D002633:Chemotaxis; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008829:Microbiology / Q000266:history*