PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Marianne Grognot
AU  - Katja M. Taute
TI  - A multiscale 3D chemotaxis assay reveals bacterial navigation mechanisms
AID  - 10.1101/2020.03.18.997841
DP  - 2020 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 2020.03.18.997841
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/03/20/2020.03.18.997841.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/03/20/2020.03.18.997841.full
AB  - How bacteria navigate environmental chemical gradients has implications ranging from health to climate science. The underlying behavioral mechanisms are unknown for most species due to a lack in techniques bridging scales from individual 3D motility behavior to the statistical power required to assess the resulting performance. We present the first demonstration of such a multiscale 3D chemotaxis assay and reveal that Caulobacter crescentus chemotaxis breaks with the Escherichia coli paradigm.