Microscopic, genetic, and biochemical characterization of non-flagellar swimming motility in marine cyanobacteria

J. McCarren. Ph.D. Thesis. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Univ. of California, San Diego. 2005

Frontmatter

Chapter I. Introduction

Chapter II. Ultrastructural analysis of SwmA, a protein required for non-flagellar swimming motility

Chapter III. Inactivation of swmA results in the loss of an outer cell layer in a swimming Synechococcus strain

Chapter IV. Transposon mutagenesis in a marine Synechococcus strain: Isolation of swimming motility mutants

Chapter V. SwmB: a highly repetitive 1.12 MDa protein that is required for non-flagellar swimming motility in Synechococcus

Chapter VI. Characterization of Synechococcus swimming motility mutants

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