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Thinking about Bacillus subtilis as a multicellular organism
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Fruiting body formation by Bacillus subtilis
Branda, S. S., González-Pastor, J. E., Ben-Yehuda, S., Losick, R., & Kolter, R. (2001) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.191384198 · Cited by 1,129
Self-citationBacteria as Multicellular Organisms
Shapiro, J. A. (1988) · Scientific American · doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0688-82 · Cited by 524 · cited 1×
“the Myxobacteria and the Actinomycetes, to today’s pervading view that nearly all bacteria are capable of multicellular behaviors [2].”
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- Authors
- Aguilar, C., Vlamakis, H., Losick, R., & Kolter, R.
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Microbiology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2007-12
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 638-643
- ISSN
- 1369-5274 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2020496125
- Cited by
- 225
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 1.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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