In the early 1990s, Eshel Ben-Jacob, a biological physicist at Tel Aviv University, and his colleagues discovered two new species of bacteria—Paenibacillus dendritiformis and Paenibacillus vortex.

Take Paenibacillus vortex. It’s a swarming bacterium, meaning it has the ability to travel thanks in part to a flagellum. The actual distance traveled is about 1/5 of an inch every hour ...

Moreover, Paenibacillus vortex has the ability to degrade xylan, thus contributing its own enzymes to the consortium making it even more effective for degradation of the plant material.

Paenibacillus vortex is known for its ability to swarm (coordinated migration on solid surfaces using flagella) and collaborate with other microorganisms by carrying them in specialized structures ...

P. vortex and two other Paenibacillus strains have more of those genes than any of the other 499 bacteria Ben-Jacob studied, including pathogenic bacteria such as Escherichia coli, indicating a ...

Mutually facilitated dispersal between the nonmotile fungus Aspergillus fumigatus and the swarming bacterium Paenibacillus vortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2011; DOI: 10. ...

As part of a team at Tel Aviv University, the biological physicist discovered two new species of bacteria–Paenibacillus dendritiformis and Paenibacillus vortex–in the soil near the roots of ...

The bacteria is Paenibacillus vortex. Ori Elisar. Save. Save. Most letters are ink or pixels, static in their existence. The letters Ori Elisar creates, however, are not. Elisar, a designer ...

Paenibacillus dendritiformis and the Paenibacillus vortex are two types of bacteria, both discovered by Eshel Ben-Jacob, a physicists-turned-biologist. They build up into massive colonies.

image: This is a "smart community" of Paenibacillus vortex bacteria. view more Credit: Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob, Tel Aviv University. IQ scores are used to assess the intelligence of human beings.

These 600 billion soil bacteria, known as Paenibacillus vortex are one of the most elaborately structured bacterial communities in nature. "These bacteria have a great social life, ...