gschaible

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   by gschaible 1y ago

   For reproduction of the MMB, cells undergo classical bacterial division where the genome is replicated and the cell divides. The difference is that this is happening in a sphere so the sphere doubles in size and then the entire sphere split
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   by gschaible 1y ago

   Magnetotaxis in bacteria (and some protist) is passive. The organism will biomineralize a ferromagnetic mineral, such as magnetite or greigite, and in a magnetic field they will passively orientate. This is not active orientation, meaning t
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   by gschaible 1y ago

   Hi there, first author of the paper here. We would argue that they are a true multicellular organism, which is rather unconventional for Bacteria. They do indeed have some level of genomic heterogeneity between individual cells within a sin