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Bacteria, and in particular marine bacteria, can be found in environments that are poor in nutrients. To survive, they are able to move toward more favorable niches by a mechanism called chemotaxis, whose first step consists in the detection of substrates by chemoreceptors. We developed a chemotactic assay enabling rapid testing of several hundred different solutes and we identified several molecules eliciting a chemotactic response from two aquatic Shewanella species. We propose that this assay be used for other bacteria to determine the repertoire of chemotactic molecules, generally not clearly elucidated.
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