Hyphal Death during Colony Development in <i>Streptomyces antibioticus</i>: Morphological Evidence for the Existence of a Process of Cell Deletion in a Multicellular Prokaryote

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During the life cycle of the streptomycetes, large numbers of hyphae die; the surviving ones undergo cellular differentiation and appear as chains of spores in the mature colony. Here we report that the hyphae of Streptomyces antibioticus die through an orderly process of internal cell dismantling that permits the doomed hyphae to be eliminated with minimum disruption of the colony architecture. Morphological and...

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