Species name： Vibrio alginolyticus
Nagoya University Michio Homma
The mutants of V. alginolyticus were isolated from the motility defective mutants who were poorly motile in soft agar medium. The flagellar rotational direction is fixed in the CW direction and the cell proceeds at the forefront of flagellum, thus the flagella tab. The operation proceeds in the distal end of flagella. Therefore, flagella get tangled up under the microscope. The flagella were observed by high-intensity dark-field microscope.
(2014.07.22)