Shadowing the actions of a predator: Backlit fluorescent microscopy reveals synchronous nonbinary septation of predatory Bdellovibrio inside prey and exit through discrete bdelloplast pores

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 6329-6335

  Fenton, A K ^a   Kanna, M ^b   Woods, R D ^a   Aizawa, S I ^b   Sockett, R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HIROSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BDELLOVIBRIO; BDELLOVIBRIO BACTERIOVORUS; CELL DIVISION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OUTER MEMBRANE; PREDATOR; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY;

BDELLOVIBRIO; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BDELLOVIBRIO; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 78649667342     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00914-10     Document Type: Article

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