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hyperflagellation en · NOUN

Etymology

From hyper- + flagellation.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The production of excessive flagella
    • During swarming, the morphology of temperate swarmers does not significantly change, and processes such as elongation, the formation of multi-nucleoid cells, and hyperflagellation are not observed, unlike in robust swarmers such as Proteus and Vibrio species [14 ,15 ]. 2016 January 20, “SOS System Induction Inhibits the Assembly of Chemoreceptor Signaling Clusters in Salmonella enterica”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: