polytrichous flagellation

METPO:1007006 · CLASS · SEEDED

A flagellar arrangement in which multiple flagella (typically a tuft) are present per cell, often combined with polar attachment.

Trait evidence (2)

DOI:10.1128/AEM.64.10.3576-3583.1998
In transmission electron micrographs, isolate OC 1/4 exhibited monopolar polytrichous flagellation, with up to three flagella per cell (Fig. 4).

Huber et al. directly observed multiple flagella at one pole of Thermocrinis ruber OC 1/4.
DOI:10.1128/AEM.68.12.6310-6320.2002
The cells have bipolar polytrichous flagella and exhibit a unique swimming pattern, rotating and translating along their short axis.

Thar and Kuhl describe a second bacterial polytrichous arrangement, with flagella present at both cell poles.

No kg-microbe node embedding matched this record in the 2026-04-25 deepwalk.

Organisms cited as exemplars of this trait. Taxon ids are NCBITaxon and link out to the NCBI record.

Thermocrinis ruber NCBITaxon:75906 DOI:10.1128/AEM.64.10.3576-3583.1998 Huber et al. directly observed up to three monopolar flagella per cell in the Thermocrinis ruber isolate OC 1/4.

2026-09-11T08:45:09Z · SEEDED_FROM_METPO · seed_from_metpo
imported from data/raw/metpo.owl (CLASS)
2026-09-11T08:46:00Z · ENRICHED_FROM_LITERATURE · codex
Enriched the seeded METPO polytrichous flagellation phenotype with DOI-backed polytrichous-flagella evidence after a repository-wide duplicate review covering ignored and hidden files.