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Moist environments such as gut mucus, wound fluids, or the urinary tract provide surfaces where bacteria could spread through swashing, even when their flagella are not functioning effectively.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026

To keep up with their shorter kin, the researchers found, longer bacteria grow a greater number of flagella and disperse their swimming loads among these bundles of limbs.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023

The amoeboid cells of R. marina, characterized by their near immobility, can produce flagellated cells with two rearward-extending flagella through budding under conditions of prey scarcity.

From Science Daily • Nov. 17, 2023

Some have flagella and swim up through the snow in spring, when temperatures warm and enough meltwater is present for the cells to photosynthesize and explode in numbers.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2023

Both cilia and flagella spring directly from the cell-protoplasm, piercing the cell-membrane, when this is present.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various