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Bacterial evolution: rewiring modules to get in shape
Persat, Alexandre
•
Gitai, Zemer
2014
Bacterial species take on a wide variety of shapes, but the mechanisms by which specific shapes evolve have remained poorly understood. A recent study demonstrates that two Asticcacaulis species repurposed an ancestral regulatory protein to rewire the modules of stalk regulation, localization, and synthesis, thereby generating new shapes.
Type
research article
Authors
Persat, Alexandre
•
Gitai, Zemer
Publication date
2014
Published in
Volume
24
Issue
11
Start page
R522
End page
4
Note
Comment on: Sequential evolution of bacterial morphology by co-option of a developmental regulator. [Nature. 2014]
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NON-REVIEWED
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