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As any reader of Pijper's many works on bacterial flagella will soon discover, his opinions on this subject have changed considerably during the years. In the work from 1947, cited by me, bacterial flagella are described as “lifeless mucous twirls” or “poly-saccharide twirls”.
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WEIBULL, C. Bacterial Flagella. Nature 168, 750 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168750a0
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