buckling (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization

buckling

Caption

From a length of about 150 micrometers, filamentous cyanobacteria begin to bend when they encounter an obstacle.

Credit

MPI-DS, Maximilian Kurjahn

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