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Division in Escherichia coli is triggered by a size-sensing rather than a timing mechanism

BACKGROUND: Many organisms coordinate cell growth and division through size control mechanisms: cells must reach a critical size to trigger a cell cycle event. Bacterial division is often assumed to be controlled in this way, but experimental evidence to support this assumption is still lacking. The...

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Autores principales: Robert, Lydia, Hoffmann, Marc, Krell, Nathalie, Aymerich, Stéphane, Robert, Jérôme, Doumic, Marie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4016582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24580833
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-12-17