The Flagellar World: Electron Microscopic Images of Bacterial Flagella and Related Surface Structures - Softcover

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Professor Shin-Ichi Aizawa has decades of experience in the research of flagella, from developing a new method for the purification of flagella to the research of the flagellar with the electron microscope (EM). With The Flagellar World, Professor Aizawa has chosen to share EM images taken during his years of research, showcasing thousands of flagella images from various species.

Professor Aizawa graduated from the Department of Physics of Tohoku University in 1974. After obtaining a Ph.D.(Biophysics) at Nagoya University in 1980, he went to Yale University, Department of Biophysics & Biochemistry as a Postdoc under the supervision of Dr. Robert M. Macnab, then returned to Japan in 1985.

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This work offers a unique publication with many EM images of flagella never shown before. It fills a specific niche that shows flagella in several varied organisms with a short description accompanied by exceptional pictures that will add to any lecture on the topic. The intent of the book is not to provide an in-depth biochemical or molecular biology exploration of the flagella field, but to be a pictorial book with a short accompanying description of the system in each organism. The book is a historical document of years of research and a repository for data collected over a large part of Dr. Aizawa s productive career, which is not available elsewhere and may well be lost to the scientific world without a proper outlet such as this book.