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Extreme polyploidy in a large bacterium.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 May 2008

Mendell Jennifer E, Clements Kendall D, Choat J Howard, Angert Esther R

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Cells rely on diffusion to move metabolites and biomolecules. Diffusion is highly efficient but only over short distances. Although eukaryotic cells have broken free of diffusion-dictated constraints on cell size, most bacteria and archaea are forced to remain small. Exceptions to this rule are found among the bacterial symbionts of surgeonfish; Epulopiscium spp. are cigar-shaped cells that reach lengths in...

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PMID: 18445653
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0707522105
PMCID: PMC2373351

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