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Autotransporters Drive Biofilm Formation and Autoaggregation in the Diderm Firmicute Veillonella parvula

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UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation

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Nanoscale-length control of the flagellar driveshaft requires hitting the tethered outer membrane

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Determining the bacterial cell biology of Planctomycetes

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Natural Competence Is Common among Clinical Isolates of Veillonella parvula and Is Useful for Genetic Manipulation of This Key Member of the Oral Microbiome

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Peptidoglycan-associated outer membrane protein Mep45 of rumen anaerobeSelenomonas ruminantiumforms a non-specific diffusion pore via its C-terminal transmembrane domain

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Sporulation, bacterial cell envelopes and the origin of life

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MacSyFinder: A Program to Mine Genomes for Molecular Systems with an Application to CRISPR-Cas Systems

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