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SUBMITTER: Di Luccia B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4626701 | biostudies-other | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Marine drugs 20151021 10
The ability to produce an extracellular matrix and form multicellular communities is an adaptive behavior shared by many bacteria. In Bacillus subtilis, the model system for spore-forming bacteria, matrix production is one of the possible differentiation pathways that a cell can follow when vegetative growth is no longer feasible. While in B. subtilis the genetic system controlling matrix production has been studied in detail, it is still unclear whether other spore formers utilize similar mecha ...[more]