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Monitoring Intraspecies Competition in a Bacterial Cell Population by Cocultivation of Fluorescently Labelled Strains
Published on: January 18, 2014
[Autoregulation of phenotypic dissiciation in Bacillus licheniformis]
Abstract:
Regulation of phenotypic variability of Bacillus licheniformis mediated by autoinducers of anabiosis, d1-factors was investigated. These factors are represented by alkylhydroxybenzenes. Colonial morphological variants of B. licheniformis were obtained and described (of R,S,M-types) in the first passage of both vegetative proliferative and resting cells. Resting cells were of different type, spores and cyst-like refractile cells induced by autoinducers of anabiosis. The possibility to manage the spectrum of dissociants by the mean of autoinducers of anabiosis was demonstrated.
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