Reply to Kovacs et al.: Surfing or sliding: The act of naming and its implications [Physical Sciences]

Kovács et al. (1) have greatly contributed to the characterization of "sliding" (2–4), a flagella-independent, "passive type of [bacterial] movement, [...] powered by the pushing force of dividing cells and additional factors facilitating the expansion over surfaces" (2). They suggest that bacterial surfing (5) should be described by the same...

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