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Bacterial Chromosomal Loci Move Subdiffusively through a Viscoelastic Cytoplasm

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Functional Analysis of the Stability Determinant AlfB of pBET131, a Miniplasmid Derivative of Bacillus subtilis (natto) Plasmid pLS32

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Phylogenetic analysis identifies many uncharacterized actin-like proteins (Alps) in bacteria: regulated polymerization, dynamic instability and treadmilling in Alp7A

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Robust single-particle tracking in live-cell time-lapse sequences

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