Evidence of a possible multicellular life cycle in Escherichia coli

Summary: Biofilms are surface-attached multicellular microbial communities. Their genetics have been extensively studied, but the cell-scale morphogenetic events of their formation are largely unknown. Here, we recorded the entirety of morphogenesis in Escherichia coli, and discovered a previously u...

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Main Authors: Devina Puri, Xin Fang, Kyle R. Allison
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-01-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222020685