Bacterial solutions to multicellularity: a tale of biofilms, filaments and fruiting bodies

Group Formation, Relatedness, and the Evolution of Multicellularity

(2013) Roberta M. Fisher et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sticking together: building a biofilm the Bacillus subtilis way

(2013) Hera Vlamakis et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Experimental evolution of an alternating uni- and multicellular life cycle in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2013) William C. Ratcliff et al.   Nature Communications

Molecular Recognition by a Polymorphic Cell Surface Receptor Governs Cooperative Behaviors in Bacteria

(2013) Darshankumar T. Pathak et al.   PLoS Genetics

Improved use of a public good selects for the evolution of undifferentiated multicellularity

(2013) John H Koschwanez et al.   eLife

Chitin-Induced Gene Expression in Secondary Metabolic Pathways of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) Grown in Soil

(2012) Behnam Nazari et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

General Protein Diffusion Barriers Create Compartments within Bacterial Cells

(2012) Susan Schlimpert et al.   CELL

Regulation of apical growth and hyphal branching in Streptomyces

(2012) Klas Flärdh et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Escherichia colilow-molecular-weight penicillin-binding proteins help orient septal FtsZ, and their absence leads to asymmetric cell division and branching

(2012) Lakshmi-Prasad Potluri et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Cell division and DNA segregation in Streptomyces: how to build a septum in the middle of nowhere?

(2012) Dagmara Jakimowicz et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Experimental evolution of multicellularity

(2012) W. C. Ratcliff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Liquid transport facilitated by channels in Bacillus subtilis biofilms

(2012) J. N. Wilking et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Advantages of the division of labour for the long-term population dynamics of cyanobacteria at different latitudes

(2012) V. Rossetti et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Quorum-sensing and cheating in bacterial biofilms

(2012) R. Popat et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Differences in Cell Division Rates Drive the Evolution of Terminal Differentiation in Microbes

(2012) João F. Matias Rodrigues et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Constitutive expression of ftsZ overrides the whi developmental genes to initiate sporulation of Streptomyces coelicolor

(2011) Joost Willemse et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The origin of multicellularity in cyanobacteria

(2011) Bettina E Schirrmeister et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Outer membrane continuity and septosome formation between vegetative cells in the filaments of Anabaena sp. PCC 7120

(2011) Laura Wilk et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Ecological and evolutive implications of bacterial defences against predators

(2011) Alexandre Jousset   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Positive control of cell division: FtsZ is recruited by SsgB during sporulation of Streptomyces

(2011) J. Willemse et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

FraC/FraD-dependent intercellular molecular exchange in the filaments of a heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium, Anabaena sp.

(2011) Victoria Merino-Puerto et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The regulation of the secondary metabolism of Streptomyces: new links and experimental advances

(2011) Gilles P. van Wezel et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Endemic social diversity within natural kin groups of a cooperative bacterium

(2011) S. A. Kraemer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sucrose Utilization in Budding Yeast as a Model for the Origin of Undifferentiated Multicellularity

(2011) John H. Koschwanez et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Scent of Danger: Floc Formation by a Freshwater Bacterium Is Induced by Supernatants from a Predator-Prey Coculture

(2010) J. F. Blom et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Territoriality inProteus: Advertisement and Aggression

(2010) Karine A. Gibbs et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Proliferation of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrobaculum islandicum by cell fission

(2010) Seiji Sonobe et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

A new morphogenesis pathway in bacteria: unbalanced activity of cell wall synthesis machineries leads to coccus-to-rod transition and filamentation in ovococci

(2010) Daniel Pérez-Núñez et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Fra proteins influencing filament integrity, diazotrophy and localization of septal protein SepJ in the heterocyst-forming cyanobacteriumAnabaenasp.

(2010) Victoria Merino-Puerto et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Lethal protein produced in response to competition between sibling bacterial colonies

(2010) A. Be'er et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cyanobacterial Heterocysts

(2010) K. Kumar et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Emergence of Spatial Structure in Cell Groups and the Evolution of Cooperation

(2010) Carey D. Nadell et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Sociobiology of the Myxobacteria

(2009) Gregory J. Velicer et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Social Conflict in Centimeter-and Global-Scale Populations of the Bacterium Myxococcus xanthus

(2009) Michiel Vos et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mycobacterium versus Streptomyces—we are different, we are the same

(2009) Nicole Scherr et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Structural and Functional Characterizations of SsgB, a Conserved Activator of Developmental Cell Division in Morphologically Complex Actinomycetes

(2009) Qingping Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The evolutionary path to terminal differentiation and division of labor in cyanobacteria

(2009) Valentina Rossetti et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Bacterial cell division: assembly, maintenance and disassembly of the Z ring

(2009) David W. Adams et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Compartmentalized function through cell differentiation in filamentous cyanobacteria

(2009) Enrique Flores et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Sporulation in mycobacteria

(2009) J. Ghosh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Do mycobacteria produce endospores?

(2009) B. A. Traag et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The developmental model of microbial biofilms: ten years of a paradigm up for review

(2009) Russell D. Monds et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

The Origins of Multicellularity and the Early History of the Genetic Toolkit For Animal Development

(2008) Antonis Rokas   Annual Review of Genetics

Bistability, Epigenetics, and Bet-Hedging in Bacteria

(2008) Jan-Willem Veening et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

MazF, an mRNA Interferase, Mediates Programmed Cell Death during Multicellular Myxococcus Development

(2008) Hirofumi Nariya et al.   CELL

Mechanism of intercellular molecular exchange in heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria

(2008) Conrad W Mullineaux et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Feast or famine: the global regulator DasR links nutrient stress to antibiotic production by Streptomyces

(2008) Sébastien Rigali et al.   EMBO REPORTS

FtsW Is a Dispensable Cell Division Protein Required for Z-Ring Stabilization during Sporulation Septation in Streptomyces coelicolor

(2008) B. V. Mistry et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

DivIVA Is Required for Polar Growth in the MreB-Lacking Rod-Shaped Actinomycete Corynebacterium glutamicum

(2008) M. Letek et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Wag31, a homologue of the cell division protein DivIVA, regulates growth, morphology and polar cell wall synthesis in mycobacteria

(2008) C.-M. Kang et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Morphological plasticity as a bacterial survival strategy

(2007) Sheryl S. Justice et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY