You get what you select for: better swarming through more flagella.
In a recent Cell Reports paper by van Ditmarsch et al., the authors aim to conduct experimental evolution in Pseudomonas aeruginosa but instead conduct classical forward genetics and select for mutations in a single gene that improves swarming motility at the expense of biofilm formation.
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA. Electronic address: dbkearns@indiana.edu.
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D018441:Biofilms; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000502:physiology*