Bright Lights, Abundant Operons—Fluorescence and Genomic Technologies Advance Studies of Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction: Review of the BLAST Meeting, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 14 to 19 January 2001

In the merciless world of natural selection, microorganisms have turned their most obvious characteristic, their small size, into their greatest advantage. Small size results in a large surface-to-volume ratio, which facilitates exchange of chemicals between the interior of bacterial cells and the