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Division of labour and terminal differentiation in a novel Bacillus thuringiensis strain.
The ISME journal - 1 Feb 2015
Deng Chao, Slamti Leyla, Raymond Ben, Liu Guiming, Lemy Christelle, Gominet Myriam, Yang Jingni, Wang Hengliang, Peng Qi, Zhang Jie, Lereclus Didier, Song Fuping
Abstract excerpt
A major challenge in bacterial developmental biology has been to understand the mechanisms underlying cell fate decisions. Some differentiated cell types display cooperative behaviour. Cooperation is one of the greatest mysteries of evolutionary biology and microbes have been considered as an excellent system for experimentally testing evolution theories. Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a spore-forming bacterium,...
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