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Factors affecting daughter cells' arrangement during the early bacterial divisions.
PloS one - 10 Feb 2010
Su Pin-Tzu, Yen Pei-Wen, Wang Shao-Hung, Lin Chi-Hung, Chiou Arthur, Syu Wan-Jr
Abstract excerpt
On agar plates, daughter cells of Escherichia coli mutually slide and align side-by-side in parallel during the first round of binary fission. This phenomenon has been previously attributed to an elastic material that restricts apparently separated bacteria from being in string. We hypothesize th...
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