Persat, AlexandreGitai, Zemer2016-12-052016-12-052016-12-05201410.1016/j.cub.2014.04.022https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/131755Bacterial 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.Biological EvolutionCell Polaritytext::journal::journal article::research article