A Minimal Threshold of c-di-GMP Is Essential for Fruiting Body Formation and Sporulation in Myxococcus xanthus

• Dorota Skotnicka,

  Affiliation Department of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

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• Gregory T. Smaldone ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gregory T. Smaldone, Tobias Petters

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California - Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5817-241X

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• Tobias Petters ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gregory T. Smaldone, Tobias Petters

  Affiliation Department of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

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• Eleftheria Trampari,

  Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom

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• Jennifer Liang,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California - Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Volkhard Kaever,

  Affiliation Research Core Unit Metabolomics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Jacob G. Malone,

  Affiliations Molecular Microbiology Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

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• Mitchell Singer ,

  * E-mail: mhsinger@ucdavis.edu (MS); sogaard@mpi-marburg.mpg.de (LSA)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California - Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

  * E-mail: mhsinger@ucdavis.edu (MS); sogaard@mpi-marburg.mpg.de (LSA)

  Affiliation Department of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

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