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Predatory mechanisms of Bdellovibrio and like organisms.
Future microbiology - 1 Feb 2007
Strauch Eckhard, Schwudke Dominik, Linscheid Michael
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Bdellovibrio and like organisms (BALOs) are predatory, Gram-negative delta-proteobacteria with a complex developmental lifecycle. In the free-living attack phase they are highly motile and seek out prey bacteria that they invade. The ensuing intracellular growth and replication is characterized by the development of a long filament that septates into individual cells that differentiate further into the...
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