Self-organized canals enable long-range directed material transport in bacterial communities

• Main Authors: Li, Ye, Liu, Shiqi, Zhang, Yingdan, Seng, Zi Jing, Xu, Haoran, Yang, Liang, Wu, Yilin
• Other Authors: Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Science::Biological sciences; Bacterial Growth; Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/164535
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Long-range material transport is essential to maintain the physiological functions of multicellular organisms such as animals and plants. By contrast, material transport in bacteria is often short-ranged and limited by diffusion. Here, we report a unique form of actively regulated long-range directe...