Motility Assay (Soft Agar)

Reveals whether a bacterium can actively swim, by watching how far it spreads outward from a single inoculation point through a semi-solid gel loose enough for a motile cell to swim through.

References

• Kohl, L., Bastin, P. "Motility in Parasitic Protozoans: Strategies, Costs and Mechanisms." Current Opinion in Microbiology 8, no. 3 (2005): 315–319.