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SUBMITTER: Zhou R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC134997 | biostudies-literature | 2002 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhou Ruanbao R Wolk C Peter CP
Journal of bacteriology 20020501 9
Cyanobacteria that form akinetes as well as heterocysts present a rare opportunity to investigate the relationships between alternative differentiation processes and pattern formation processes in a single bacterium. Because no akinete marker gene has been identified, akinete formation has been little studied genetically. We report the first identification of an akinete marker gene. ...[more]