Phase variation of Clostridioides difficile colony morphology occurs via modulation of cell division

• Anchal Mehra,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Elizabeth M. Garrett,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Penn State University Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Christopher J. Serody,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Rita Tamayo

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rita_tamayo@med.unc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3745-3316

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