The Evolution of a Capacity to Build Supra-Cellular Ropes Enabled Filamentous Cyanobacteria to Colonize Highly Erodible Substrates

BACKGROUND: Several motile, filamentous cyanobacteria display the ability to self-assemble into tightly woven or twisted groups of filaments that form macroscopic yarns or ropes, and that are often centimeters long and 50–200 µm in diameter. Traditionally, this trait has been the basis for taxonomic...

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Autores principales: Garcia-Pichel, Ferran, Wojciechowski, Martin F.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2773439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19924246
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007801

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2773439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19924246
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007801

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