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Asymmetric division in bacteria.
A scanning electron micrograph of Caulobacter crescentus cells at 10,000x magnification. Each cell division for C. crescentus is asymmetric, generating two distinct daughter cells: a motile swarmer cell and a sessile stalked cell. A systematic dissection of the signal transduction genes controlling cell cycle progression, growth, and morphogenesis is presented in Skerker et al.
Image Credit: Scanning electron micrograph by Jeffrey Skerker; false color by Liana Holmberg
Citation: (2005) PLoS Biology Issue Image | Vol. 3(10) October 2005. PLoS Biol 3(10): ev03.i10. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pbio.v03.i10
Published: October 25, 2005
Copyright: © 2005 Jeffrey M. Skerker. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
A scanning electron micrograph of Caulobacter crescentus cells at 10,000x magnification. Each cell division for C. crescentus is asymmetric, generating two distinct daughter cells: a motile swarmer cell and a sessile stalked cell. A systematic dissection of the signal transduction genes controlling cell cycle progression, growth, and morphogenesis is presented in Skerker et al.
Image Credit: Scanning electron micrograph by Jeffrey Skerker; false color by Liana Holmberg